string sort()

[Chris]

How could i possibly sort this my $mystring = "this"
and make it look like my $mystring = "hist"

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

How could i possibly sort this my $mystring = "this"
and make it look like my $mystring = "hist"

$mystring = join '', sort split //, $mystring;

 

[Jürgen Exner]

How could i possibly sort this my $mystring = "this"
and make it look like my $mystring = "hist"

Guessing here (one single example is not a very good way to describe the
expected behaviour of a generic algorithm), but do you want to sort the
characters of a string? In that case:
- perldoc -f split
- perldoc -f sort
- perldoc -f join

jue