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in reply to sort timestamps with associated names.

Your data seems to use fixed length records, so you can just use substr to extract the timestamp fragment:
my @sorted = sort { substr($a, 10) cmp substr($b, 10) } @data;

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Re^2: sort timestamps with associated names.
by Sparky (Initiate) on Jul 30, 2013 at 03:15 UTC
    Thank you to all that replied. The suggestions helped.