use strict; use warnings; use feature qw{ say }; use List::Util qw{ max }; open my $pkgsFH, q{<}, \ <<__EOF__ or die qq{open: < HEREDOC: $!\n}; samba-common-libs-4.2.10-6.2.el7_2.x86_64 samba-common-libs-4.2.10-8.el7_2.x86_64 samba-common-libs-4.2.12-7.el7_2.x86_64 samba-common-libs-4.2.10-6.el7_2.x86_64 samba-common-libs-4.2.10-3.el7_2.x86_64 xyz-libs-4.2.10-7.el7_2.x86_64 xyz-libs-4.2.12-7.el7_2.x86_64 xyz-libs-4.2.13-7.el7_2.x86_64 xyz-libs-4.2.11-7.el7_2.x86_64 abc-4.2.11-7.el7_2.x86_64 abc-4.2.11-8.el7_2.x86_64 abc-4.2.11-6.el7_2.x86_64 __EOF__ my %pkgs; while ( <$pkgsFH> ) { chomp; my( $pkg, $ver ) = split m{-(?=\d)}, $_, 2; $ver =~ s{\.el7.*}{}; my @values = split m{[-.]}, $ver, 4; my $key = $values[ 0 ] * 1000000 + $values[ 1 ] * 10000 + $values[ 2 ] * 100 + $values[ 3 ]; $pkgs{ $pkg }->{ $key } = $_; } close $pkgsFH or die qq{close: < HEREDOC: $!\n}; foreach my $pkg ( sort keys %pkgs ) { say $pkgs{ $pkg }->{ max keys %{ $pkgs{ $pkg } } } }