in reply to Re^2: Sorting ip addresses quickly
in thread Sorting ip addresses quickly

obviously that doesn't work:
print sort map { s/(\d+)/$1/eg ; $_ } <DATA>; __DATA__ 192.168.6.10 10.10.254.253 10.10.254.3

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Re^4: Sorting ip addresses quickly
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2010 at 15:40 UTC
    To make it work you'd need to use something like
    print map { $$_[0] } sort { $$a[1] <=> $$b[1] } map { [ $_, join '', map { sprintf '%03d', $_ } /(\d+)/g ] } <DATA>; __DATA__ 192.168.6.10 10.10.254.253 10.10.254.3
    update: oh look, thats what the root post is about, lol