i want to sort @arr1 according to @arr2 sorting

Your example output doesn't really match what you describe. It appears you just want @arr1 sorted according to the numeric value. If that's the case, then ikegami has answered your question. If, instead, you actually want what you describe -- @arr1 sorted according to the order in @arr2 -- then something like this might work:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
use strict;
use warnings;

my @arr1 = qw(john:::10 bill:::9 mary:::35 willy:::21);
my @arr2 = qw(9 35 10 21);

my $i = 0;
my %order = map { $_ => $i++ } @arr2;

print for sort { my ($c) = $a =~ /:::(\d+)$/;
                 my ($d) = $b =~ /:::(\d+)$/;
                 $order{$c} <=> $order{$d}
               } @arr1;

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Notice I used a hash to store the order of each element from @arr2. This is for efficiency -- you could do a search through @arr2 each time, but that wouldn't scale very well.

In reply to Re: Sort array1 according to sorting of array2 by revdiablo
in thread Sort array1 according to sorting of array2 by noname00

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