Sounds like you need a custom sort routine. There are several ways you could do it. Most simply (and least efficiently):

my @sorted = sort { 
    (split /\./, $a)[1] cmp (split /\./, $b)[1]
    } @LogAnalyser::LogFileList;

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A better way (that someone named something fancy which I cannot remember):

my @sorted = sort datestamp @LogAnalyser::LogFileList;

{ # anonymous block. If you're using Perl 5.10, you could
  # use a state variable instead.
  my %cache;
sub datestamp
{
    my $left = ( $cache{$a} ||= (split /\./, $a)[1] );
    my $right = ( $cache{$b} ||= (split /\./, $b)[1] );
    return $left cmp $right;
}
}

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This last one does a little memory tradeoff to avoid doing the split and offset twice for every comparison in the sort.

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In reply to Re: Sort the file names a list by bv
in thread Sort the file names a list by snra_perl

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