No, it won't, since numberification of the string only looks at the beginning. It will see them all as zero and compare equal in every case.

Change the order of the data in your example, since they were sorted to begin with.

[F:\]perl -e "print qq{[$_]\n} for ( sort { print 0+$a, $b, $/; $a <=>
+ $b } qw(file2 file20z file22s file1q file10z file12f) )"
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00
00
00
00
[file2]
[file20z]
[file22s]
[file1q]
[file10z]
[file12f]

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—John

In reply to Re: Re: Sorting Files with Numbers by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Sorting Files with Numbers by Anonymous Monk

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