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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sorting strings in reverse order Post 302723977 by gimley on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 07:58:29 AM
Old 10-31-2012
Many thanks. Am out and don't have a perl compiler to check the code, but will definitely get back to you with the results.
Thanks for all your help

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Many thanks to both. The two solutions worked beautifully. The one proposed by elixir_sinari is faster and as he himself states
With perl (without invoking the interpreter twice and without calling any external utility):
Thanks for the quick postings and the useful code. I learned finally how to handle scalar reverse, which is a great learning experience for me.
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