This particular method is tried and proven, and should get you going in the right direction. 

my @files = <DATA>;
chomp @files;
my @sorted = map  {   $_->[0] } 
             sort {   $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
             map  { [ $_ , ( split /\s+/, $_ )[-1] ] }
             @files;

print "$_\n" for @sorted;

__DATA__
1999-12-07 12:00p 3,856 abc.dll
2002-02-24 09:30p 260,096 xyz.dll
2004-03-19 01:29p 992,907 lmo.dll
2004-04-08 03:23p 24,576 efg.dll
2004-03-11 0804a 1,036,288 stu.dll

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For an explanation, look up Schwartzian Transform.

This is, of course, just One Way To Do It. Here come the rest..........


Dave

In reply to Re: sort file list by davido
in thread sort file list by davestiff

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