my @new_list = map { $_->[0] } sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map { /(a|b)(\d+)_(\d+)\[(\d+)\]/ or die "Can't par +se $_"; [$_, sprintf "$1%05d%05d%05d", $2, $3, $4]; } @split_list;
Make a sortable pair for each element of the array. Concatenate first letter with all the numbers in an element. Expand every number to 5 digits with leading zeros. Then sort the pairs alphabetically by second element and take original elements from sorted pairs
In reply to Re: Sort problems
by ccn
in thread Sort problems
by erez_ez
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