First you have to decide how you'll get the name of the file from that line. Since it's the last entry on the line, you could use split: 
@arr=sort {split(/\s+/,$a)[-1] cmp split(/\s+/,$b)} @arr;

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Note that this code is very inefficient: it splits each string each time it has to make a comparison during sorting. But you should be alright as long as you only have hundreds of files in a listing. It also fails if the filenames have blanks in them.

For a more serious routine, you could pick the line apart with a regular expression, change the array into a list of lists that contains the filename as one element and the original line as the other, sort based on the filename element, and in the final step throw the filename away, leaving the sorted list of lines. This is known as Schwartzian transform.

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

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