It might be easier to take out what you don't need with a grep: 
@to_be_written = grep { split(/_/)[0] <= $today } @busdir;

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... after which, you just need to take each file in @to_be_written and do what you need to do with it.

Alternative, it's probably more efficient to use a foreach loop, as to only process the list once for both the requirement on being less than $today, and for the file operations: 

foreach (@to_be_written) {
   if ( split(/_/)[0] <= $today ) {
      do_magic_file_copy_thing_here( $_ ); # $_ is the filename of int
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   }
}

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In reply to Re: Could someone take a look at this code snippet? by Masem
in thread Sorting a list of filenames by wstarrs

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