#!/usr/bin/env perl use Modern::Perl; use Data::Dumper; my @data = ; @data = map { $_->[0] } sort { $b->[1][0] <=> $a->[1][0] or $a->[1][1] <=> $b->[1][1] } map { [ $_, [substr( $_, 0, 8 ), substr( $_, 8)]] } @data; say @data; __DATA__ 20090405022300 20080405022600 20090405022900 20080405023500 20050405005000 20080405022500 20090405022500 20020405081200 20010405000000 20090405022100