#!/usr/bin/perl use Data::Dumper; use 5.010; my @strArr = qw(Ram Sham Gopal Hari Krisha Govind); my @sorted_string = sort @strArr; print Dumper \@sorted_string; my @numbers = (14, 3, 12, 2, 23); my @sorted_numbers = sort @numbers; #for number sort will not work print Dumper \@sorted_numbers; my @sorted_numbers = sort { $a<=>$b } @numbers; print Dumper \@sorted_numbers;