perl -le 'print for sort {$a <=> $b} qw(bbb1 aaa2 ccc3 xxx15 def159)' bbb1 aaa2 ccc3 xxx15 def159 #### foreach my $key ( sort {$a <=> $b} $q->param() ) { my $value = $q->param($key); # now do whatever with $value ... }