It's a long way around to do it, but maybe you have your reasons.
#! perl -slw
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my @array1 = (
"john:::10",
"bill:::9",
"mary:::35",
"willy:::21",
);
## Build @array2 from the numbers in @array1
my @array2 = map{ m[(\d+)$] and $1 } @array1;
## Reorder @array1 by assigning a slice across it
## with the indexes sorted according to the numeric values in @array2
@array1 = @array1[ sort { $array2[ $a ] <=> $array2[ $b ] } 0 .. $#arr
+ay2 ];
print Dumper \@array1;
__END__
P:\test>385906
$VAR1 = [
'bill:::9',
'john:::10',
'willy:::21',
'mary:::35'
];
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon
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