Hi Monks, I know I already nagged you all about this sort issue but I just cant get it to work and I think I'm starting to lose it... Basically, I need to sort a long list both alphabetically and numerically. The size of each word is not given and there is not a constant syntax. The only thing that does repeat itself is the brackets at the end of each word. For examle this is how the following list should look like after sorting: 
a1_1[1] a1_1[2] a1_1[10] a1_2[1] a1_2[2] a1_2[10] a1_10[1] a1_10[2] a1
+_10[10]
a2_1[1] a2_1[2] a2_1[10] a2_2[1] a2_2[2] a2_2[10] a2_10[1] a2_10[2] a2
+_10[10]
a10_1[1] a10_1[2] a10_1[10] a10_2[1] a10_2[2] a10_2[10] a10_10[1] a10_
+10[2] a10_10[10]
b1_1[1] b1_1[2] b1_1[10] b1_2[1] b1_2[2] b1_2[10] b1_10[1] b1_10[2] b1
+_10[10]
b2_1[1] b2_1[2] b2_1[10] b2_2[1] b2_2[2] b2_2[10] b2_10[1] b2_10[2] b2
+_10[10]
b10_1[1] b10_1[2] b10_1[10] b10_2[1] b10_2[2] b10_2[10] b10_10[1] b10_
+10[2] b10_10[10]

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Again, this is not necessarily the structure of each word. For example, it can be also abc_25_pur5llt3. I already tried using the following code(in various versions) but it works on certain lists(such as the one I showed above) and doesnt on others: 
my @new_list = sort {
 
 ($a =~ /(\w+)(\w+)(\d+)/)[0] cmp ($b =~ /(\w+)(\w+)(\d+)/)[0]
                 ||
 ($a =~ /\[(\d+)/)[0] <=> ($b =~ /\[(\d+)/)[0] 

} @split_list;

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I would accept any code that will make the job done. I just cant make mine to work probably because I cant totally understand it(I got it from one of the Monks). Thank you!

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