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Chapter 7. Practical Reference Tricks > Review of Sorting
7.1. Review of Sorting
Perl's built-in sort operator sorts text strings in their natural text order, by default.[1]
[1] My friends call that the "ASCIIbetical" ordering. Normally modern Perl doesn't use ASCII; instead, it uses a default sort order, depending on the current locale and character set; see the perllocale (not perllocal!) manpage.
This is fine if you want to sort text strings:
