use strict; use warnings; my @s = ( "1.0", "1.10", "1.2", "3", "2.0.1", "4.1.1.1", "1.0.1", "1.1", "1.0.2", "2.0" ); my @t = map { join ".", map { sprintf '%d', $_ } split(/\./,$_) } sort map { join ".", map { sprintf '%05d', $_ } split(/\./,$_) } @s; print "IN: ", join(" ", @s), "\n"; print "OUT: ", join(" ", @t), "\n"; __END__ IN: 1.0 1.10 1.2 3 2.0.1 4.1.1.1 1.0.1 1.1 1.0.2 2.0 OUT: 1.0 1.0.1 1.0.2 1.1 1.2 1.10 2.0 2.0.1 3 4.1.1.1