That's really weird, because for me, the program outputs the following:

#!perl -w
use strict;
use 5.010;

my @data = qw{
   this_5_string_12
   some_12_garbage_23
   this_5_string_8
   17
   this_5_string_23
   some_12_garbage_6
   102
   this_5_string_19
   5
   this_5_string_101
   };
my $width = 50;

say for
   map { substr $_, 54 }
   sort
   map { do {
            no warnings qw{ uninitialized };
            pack qq{A${width}NA*}, m{(.*\D)?(\d+)$}, $_;
          }
       }
   @data;

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Output: 
5
17
102
some_12_garbage_6
some_12_garbage_23
this_5_string_8
this_5_string_12
this_5_string_19
this_5_string_23
this_5_string_101

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In reply to Re^5: Sorting text-number values by Corion
in thread Sorting text-number values by merrymonk

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