in reply to Sorting on multiple variables
Gives:use warnings; use strict; print sort { my @a = ($a =~ /(\d*)_FFF(\d*)_(\d*)/); my @b = ($b =~ /(\d*)_FFF(\d*)_(\d*)/); my $i=0; for ($i=0; $i < $#a && $a[$i] == $b[$i]; $i++){} $a[$i] <=> $b[$i]; } <DATA>; __DATA__ 0011_FFF0_0010 00111_FFF00_00011 000_FFF0_0000
Not exactly exhaustive, but I submit it makes a not unreasonable basis for experimentation...$ perl /tmp/tst.pl 000_FFF0_0000 0011_FFF0_0010 00111_FFF00_00011
Update:
...which is a variant on the solution with which ikegami beat me to the draw:-)
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