Hi, my understanding is that you don't really care how special characters are sorted out, provided they get sorted the same way on your two platforms. Based on this assumption, and continuing on my idea of preprocessing your data, I think that the following program (using option 1 of my previous post) should give you the same results on both platforms:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @toSort = ('SortTest', 
              'TestSort',
              'Sort_Test',
              'Test_Sort',
              'Test1_Sort',
              'Sort1_Test',
              'Sort_1Test',
              'Test_1Sort');

my @sortedList = map {$_->[0]}
                 sort {$a->[1] cmp $b->[1]}
                 map { my $c= $_; $c =~ s/_//g; [$_, $c] } @toSort;

print join "\n", @sortedList;
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I believe that this program should give you the same following output on both platforms (but, of course, I can't test, it is up to you to try):

$ perl  sort_files.pl
Sort1_Test
Sort_1Test
SortTest
Sort_Test
Test1_Sort
Test_1Sort
TestSort
Test_Sort
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This program uses the principle of the Schwartzian Transform I mentioned in my earlier post. The main 3-line sorting command should be read from bottom to top to be understood. Basically, the map at the bottom transforms each element of the original array into a record (anonymous array) of 2 elements: the original value and a version of it without the '_' (something like ['Test_Sort', 'TestSort']). Then, the sort line sorts the records on the second element of each record (i.e. the filename without the _), and, finally, the top map extracts the original value from the sorted records. This will probably be very slightly slower than your sort program, but only by a small margin, you are unlikely to even notice the difference unless you input has dozens or hundreds of megabytes. please ask if you need further explanations.

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