RosettaCodeData/Task/Quickselect-algorithm/Perl/quickselect-algorithm.pl

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my @list = qw(9 8 7 6 5 0 1 2 3 4);
print join ' ', map { qselect(\@list, $_) } 1 .. 10 and print "\n";
sub qselect
{
my ($list, $k) = @_;
my $pivot = @$list[int rand @{ $list } - 1];
my @left = grep { $_ < $pivot } @$list;
my @right = grep { $_ > $pivot } @$list;
if ($k <= @left)
{
return qselect(\@left, $k);
}
elsif ($k > @left + 1)
{
return qselect(\@right, $k - @left - 1);
}
else { $pivot }
}