my @array = &filter(qw(Art bob joe andy willy Andrew john Archie));
print "$_\n" for(@array);

sub filter(){
    return sort {substr($a,1) cmp substr($b,1)} grep {substr($_,0,1) e
+q 'A'} @_;
}
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