Yes, I believe that is the concept I was looking for, but your example I am still only getting the same array I got before. Am I missing something simplistic? Sorry also, there is a 1, it doesn't just go 0,2,etc. There's a 1, so the 1 shows up before the 10, and 11, then the 2 shows up. This goes well beyond just 1, however. Logs can go as far as 99, so I need a solution that will organize them up to the point of this final -##.gz in the name from 0-99+ in numeric order 
foreach (@files) {
my $file = $_;

 print join $/ => map{$_->[0]}
 sort{$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]}
 map{[$_,/.+?-(\d+)\..+$/]}$file;
print "\n";

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