From what I gather you want everything numerical only up front, followed by anything with a letter in it sorted asciibetically. Here is some code using the ever popular
Schwartzian Transform:
use strict;
use warnings;
my %keys;
@keys{('a'..'n')}= ('2','1','12','a12','a9',
'a2b3','a2b4','b2b4','1a2','a2bb5',
'a2bb5a','a2bb5b',654,9);
my @foo = map { $_->[0] }
sort newsort
map { [$_, $keys{$_} =~ /^(\d+)$/ ? ($keys{$_},1)
: $keys{$_}
]
} keys %keys;
print "KEY:$_ VALUE:$keys{$_}\n" foreach (@foo);
sub newsort {
if ( defined $a->[2] and defined $b->[2] ){
if ($a->[1] > $b->[1]) {return 1}
return -1;
}
elsif ( defined $b->[2] or defined $a->[2]) {
if ( defined $a->[2] ) { return -1 }
return 1;
}
elsif ( $a->[1] gt $b->[1] ) { return 1; }
elsif ( $b->[1] gt $a->[1] ) { return -1; }
return 0;
} #newsort
__DATA__
KEY:b VALUE:1
KEY:a VALUE:2
KEY:n VALUE:9
KEY:c VALUE:12
KEY:m VALUE:654
KEY:i VALUE:1a2
KEY:d VALUE:a12
KEY:f VALUE:a2b3
KEY:g VALUE:a2b4
KEY:j VALUE:a2bb5
KEY:k VALUE:a2bb5a
KEY:l VALUE:a2bb5b
KEY:e VALUE:a9
KEY:h VALUE:b2b4
-enlil
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