Cristoforo thanks for the reply, however when using the code you provided I get the same results correct results but unsorted. Any ideas? I changed my query to only return two rows so it would closely follow your example. Below are the results. Thanks

        my @data =  map { [$_, split(/\./, (split /\s+/, $_)[1])]} @al
+l_rows;
        #print Dumper @data;

        my @sorted = map{$_->[0]}
             sort {$a->[1] cmp $b->[1]}
             map { [$_, inet_aton($_->[1]) ]} @data;
        print Dumper @sorted;
}


Results
$VAR1 = [
          [
            '2008-07-26',
            '13.168.1.1'
          ]
        ];
$VAR2 = [
          $VAR1->[0]
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          [
            '2008-07-26',
            '10.169.1.1'
          ]
        ];
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