#!perl use Modern::Perl; use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ; my %files; my @files = <*.txt *.docx>; for (@files) { next unless /^(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)/; push @{ $files{$1} }, $_; } for my $ip ( keys %files ) { my $output = "$ip.zip"; do { zip => $output, $ip -> $_ } for @{ $files{$ip} }; }