Although from your question it is a bit unclear what you are looking for, perhaps the following code segment will help.
#/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
foreach (sort split /\s+/,<DATA>) {
    /^\d/ ? print "FH1: $_\n" : print "FH2: $_\n";
}

__DATA__
953-FMT-FMT   954-FMT-FMT   BLOGO93-FMT-FMT   955-FMT-FMT   BOXSTART2-
+FMT-FMT   BOXEND2-FMT-FMT   956-FMT-FMT   413-FMT-FMT   DATE1-FMT-FMT
+   414-FMT-FMT   415-FMT-FMT   416-FMT-FMT   BLOGO107-FMT-FMT   417-F
+MT-FMT   419-FMT-FMT   418-FMT-FMT   BLOGO63-FMT-FMT   393-FMT-FMT   
+394-FMT-FMT   BLOGO75-FMT-FMT   420-FMT-FMT   421-FMT-FMT   395-FMT-F
+MT

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Which outputs...
FH1: 393-FMT-FMT
FH1: 394-FMT-FMT
FH1: 395-FMT-FMT
FH1: 413-FMT-FMT
FH1: 414-FMT-FMT
FH1: 415-FMT-FMT
FH1: 416-FMT-FMT
FH1: 417-FMT-FMT
FH1: 418-FMT-FMT
FH1: 419-FMT-FMT
FH1: 420-FMT-FMT
FH1: 421-FMT-FMT
FH1: 953-FMT-FMT
FH1: 954-FMT-FMT
FH1: 955-FMT-FMT
FH1: 956-FMT-FMT
FH2: BLOGO107-FMT-FMT
FH2: BLOGO63-FMT-FMT
FH2: BLOGO75-FMT-FMT
FH2: BLOGO93-FMT-FMT
FH2: BOXEND2-FMT-FMT
FH2: BOXSTART2-FMT-FMT
FH2: DATE1-FMT-FMT

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Cheers,
Shendal

In reply to Re: sort on numbers embedded in text by Shendal
in thread sort on numbers embedded in text by d4vis

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