Please close your code tags properly and separate it into paragraphs as needed. Show us some sample code as well as your desired result for your sample data. The below is a good starting point

chomp(my @unsorted = (<DATA>));
my @sorted = sort { $a cmp $b } @unsorted;
say for @sorted;

__DATA__
1208782,abc
406744,def
367455,abc
283191,mps
226159,abc
197688,rxwz
137875,rxwz
115901,abc
107297,def
99213,mps

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If I understand you correctly though, you just want to sum the numeric values associated with each alphanumeric code. If this is the case, you don't necessarily need to sort them. You can simple track sums into a hash.

use Data::Dump qw(pp);

chomp(my @lines = (<DATA>));
my $sums = {};
for my $line (@lines)
{
   my ($num,$let) = split ',', $line;
   $sums->{$let} += $num;
}
say pp($sums);

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In reply to Re: Alphanumeric sort by Kc12349
in thread Alphanumeric sort by zac_carl

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