I suggest you read up on the sort() function, whether chewed trees in the Camel book or with "perldoc -f sort".

sort() can be given a function to define the sorting order. Your specification, "sort these files with respect to their first digit" is somewhat ambiguous. What do you want to do if two files have the same first digit? What do you want to happen if the file doesn't have a first digit?

If I assume that you don't care what happens when a file doesn't contain a digit and when two files contain the same first digit, something like this might be what you require: 

sub mysort()
{
    my ($a_digit) = ($a =~ /(\d)/);
    my ($b_digit) = ($b =~ /(\d)/);
    return 1 unless defined $a_digit && defined $b_digit;
    return $a_digit <==> $b_digit;
}

# Code to put file names into @files

sort mysort @files;

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Paul

In reply to Re: sorting an array of file names by Xilman
in thread sorting an array of file names by hotel

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