Hi merrymonk,

Did you check out the other replies you got in that thread? For example, a search on PerlMonks as suggested by Corion would have given you, among other things, natural sort on array of arrays (Update: which in turn contains links to other places like How do I do a natural sort on an array?), or salva suggested Sort::Key:

use Sort::Key::Natural qw/natsort/;

my @data = qw/blank_5_str_1 blank_5_str_10 blank_5_str_11
    blank_5_str_12 blank_5_str_13 blank_5_str_14
    blank_5_str_2 blank_5_str_3 blank_5_str_4
    blank_5_str_5 blank_5_str_6 blank_5_str_7
    blank_5_str_8 blank_5_str_9 /;

print "$_\n" for natsort @data;

__END__

blank_5_str_1
blank_5_str_2
blank_5_str_3
...
blank_5_str_13
blank_5_str_14

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Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re: Sorting text-number values by haukex
in thread Sorting text-number values by merrymonk

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