More perlish way to sort string with leading floating point number?

Question

I have an array of strings. Each string has multiple fields delimited by a pipe character. I want to do a reverse numerical sort of the strings by the first field in each string. I've written some perl code that works fine and I'm wondering if there is a more perlish way to write this.

sub by_firstField {

    my @tmpA = split ( /\|/, $a ) ;

    my @tmpB = split ( /\|/, $b ) ;

    if ($tmpA[0]> $tmpB[0]) { -1 } elsif ($tmpA[0] < $tmpB[0]) { 1 } else { 0 }

}



push @unsorted, ( "8.02|a|b|c", "47.6|d|e|f", "108.1|g|h|i", "411.5|j|k|l", "8.1|m|n|o" ) ;



@sorted = sort by_firstField @unsorted ;



for ( my $i = 0 ; $i <= $#sorted; $i++ ) {

    print $sorted[$i] . "\n" ;

}

And, here's the output:

411.5|j|k|l

108.1|g|h|i

47.6|d|e|f

8.1|m|n|o

8.02|a|b|c

Answer 1

sort {
   my @fields_a = split /\|/, $a;
   my @fields_b = split /\|/, $b;
   $fields_b[0] <=> $fields_a[0]
}

or

sort { ( $b =~ /([^|]*)/ )[0] <=> ( $a =~ /([^|]*)/ )[0] }

or

map $_->[0],
sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] }
map [ $_, split /\|/ ],

More perlish way to sort string with leading floating point number?

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