#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @h = ( qw( psapp1 psapp psapp2 psepapp1 psepapp psepapp2 psimgprod pspappuat pswebapp2 pswebapp ) ); my @h_sorted = @h[ map { unpack "N", substr($_,-4) } sort map { my $key = $h[$_]; $key =~ s[(\d+)][ pack "N", $1 ]ge; $key . pack "N", $_ } 0..$#h ]; foreach (@h_sorted) { print "$_\n"; };