Hi PerlMonks,

I have a list containing the file names in the following format,

/devLog/devid234/term_logs/devid234.2009-08-27-23-55-11.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid234/term_logs/devid234.2009-08-27-15-05-06.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid234/term_logs/devid234.2009-08-27-01-45-03.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid234/term_logs/devid234.2009-08-28-00-00-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid234/term_logs/devid234.2009-08-28-18-25-04.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid168/term_logs/devid168.2009-08-28-01-35-02.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid168/term_logs/devid168.2009-08-27-04-02-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid168/term_logs/devid168.2009-08-28-20-25-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid168/term_logs/devid168.2009-08-27-17-55-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid918/term_logs/devid918.2009-08-27-21-15-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid918/term_logs/devid918.2009-08-27-13-25-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid918/term_logs/devid918.2009-08-27-00-00-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid918/term_logs/devid918.2009-08-28-00-00-02.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid918/term_logs/devid918.2009-08-28-09-45-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid918/term_logs/devid918.2009-08-28-19-25-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid167/term_logs/devid167.2009-08-28-02-45-01.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid167/term_logs/devid167.2009-08-27-01-45-02.terminal.log.tar.gz
/devLog/devid167/term_logs/devid167.2009-08-27-10-55-01.terminal.log.tar.gz

The file name will have the timestamp in YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss format.

The above list is created by reading a dir recursively using File::find ,

sub process_file {
            push( @LogAnalyser::LogFileList, $File::Find::name )
            if /terminal.log.tar.gz$/;
   
}

find( \&process_file, "$log_dir" );

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Now my question is to have all the filenames in each devid directory in the list sorted based on the timestamp in the log file name,
so that when i read every file from the list for processing , all the files are read sequentially with respect to time.
. I tried to use the stat() function but it did'nt suit my need either as it works based on time when file is last modified.
Thanks !!!

In reply to Sort the file names a list by snra_perl

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