You can combine many sorts. Here's something quick and dirty:
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; my @words = qw( xaxexix babebib xaxexi babebibb baebbib ); sub prepare_sort { my ( $vowels, $positions ) = ( '', '' ); while (/([aeiou])/g) { $vowels .= $1; $positions .= sprintf '%03d', pos; } return [ $_, $positions, $vowels ]; } say for map $_->[0], sort { $a->[2] cmp $b->[2] } # vowels sort sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } # positional sort sort { $a->[0] cmp $b->[0] } # alphabetical sort map prepare_sort(), @words;
Output:
baebibb babebib babebibb xaxexi xaxexix

In reply to Re^3: Sorting Strings By Vowel Sequence by Anonymous Monk
in thread Sorting Strings By Vowel Sequence by NewToPerl777

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