"...get rid of string "Patch_" and compare only by the decimal point numbers...any ideas..."

Yep. Or i hope so. To me the output of this little TMTOWTDI looks "natural":

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature qw(say);
use Data::Dump;

my @array =
  qw(Patch_1.0 Patch_2.0 Patch_3.1 Patch_5.0 Patch_4.2 Patch_6.0 Patch
+_7.0 Patch_8.0 Patch_9.3 Patch_10.2);

dd \@array;

say for sort { $a <=> $b }
  map { /.+_(.+)/; $1 } @array;

__END__

karls-mac-mini:playground karl$ ./levW.pl
[
  "Patch_1.0",
  "Patch_2.0",
  "Patch_3.1",
  "Patch_5.0",
  "Patch_4.2",
  "Patch_6.0",
  "Patch_7.0",
  "Patch_8.0",
  "Patch_9.3",
  "Patch_10.2",
]
1.0
2.0
3.1
4.2
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0
9.3
10.2

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Best regards, Karl

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In reply to Re: sorting an array with decimal points by karlgoethebier
in thread sorting an array with decimal points by levW

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