Update: Looking at the other answers, seems I misunderstood the question? Please disregard.

Update 2: tye correctly pointed out that what I was trying to do (failing badly) was this: 

sort{ eval "v$a" cmp eval "v$b" } @versions;

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which is probably too hacky. :)

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Since you have "version" strings, you can use the v notation to sort the strings, like this: 

sort{ "v$a" cmp "v$b" } @versions;

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This may seem a little hacky, but gets the job done.

It vorks like this: v2.0.0 is the same thing as chr(2).chr(0).chr(0), so we can do a stringwise compare, cmp and thus sort these correctly. The result is: 

1.0.10
1.0.9
1.1.0
1.1.2
2.0.0

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and you can just switch $a and $b to reverse the order.

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In reply to Re: Sorting An Array of Versions by Dog and Pony
in thread Sorting An Array of Versions by insensate

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