On 06/08/2018 09:51 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote:
That's unnecessarily long and complicated, here's how you can do it much
easier:

     @x.sort: {
         my ($month, $day, $year, $hour, $minute, $second) = .comb(/\d+/);
         ($year // 0, $month // 0, $day // 0, $hour // 0, $minute // 0,
$second // 0, $_);
     }

Trying it on some input data:

     cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
     cookies
     asbestos
     fire engine
     perl6
     butterflies

results in:

     asbestos
     butterflies
     cookies
     fire engine
     perl6
     cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
     cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip

This is the schwartzian transform that was mentioned in another mail.
why it wasn't actually shown, i have no clue :)

Hope that helps
   - Timo



What am I doing wrong?

$ ls | perl6 -e 'my @x=slurp(); say @x.sort: {my ($month, $day, $year, $hour, $minute, $second) = .comb(/\d+/);($year // 0, $month // 0, $day // 0, $hour // 0, $minute // 0,$second // 0, $_);}'
(cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.06-08-2018_17:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_06:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.07-08-2018_16:07:39.zip
cimtrak.log.12-08-2016_06:07:39.zip
)

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