bash-4.3$ perl -pae'@a=sort$a-$b,grep/^\d/,@F;$_="$a[0], $a[-1]"' <<< '1 2 3 4 "5"'
0, 4

bash-4.3$ perl --version

This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 40 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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