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fredho has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,
I have several files which name has the same root and different suffix (ex: file.001, file.002, file.003) and I need to identify ,for each unique value of root value (file), the file which extension has the highest value (003)
Do I need to push matching file into an array before sorting elements on the extension?
Or is there an easiest way to proceed?
Thanks for the help