This is another job for the Schwartzian Transform. You code is dreadfully inefficient because it does the stripping and case-conversion during every pass through the sort. Try this:
   @temp = map {$_->[1]}
             sort {$a->[0] cmp $b->[0]}
               map {($da = lc $_) =~ s/[\W_]+//g;[$da,$_]}
                 @temp;

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This can be made even more efficient if you know the maximum length of your string. We can use pack to build an intermediary string that we an sort using the low level (in c) default sort. Try this:
   @temp = map {(unpack ("A100A100",$_))[1]}
             sort 
               map {($da = lc $_) =~ s/[\W_]+//g;pack("A100A100",$da,$
+_)}
                 @temp;

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Hope this helps

-pete
"I am Jack's utter lack of disbelief"

In reply to Re: dictionary sorting by dreadpiratepeter
in thread [untitled node, ID 151371] by Samn

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