How to sort out numeric strings as numerics?

Question

If you have strings like:

\"file_0\"
\"file_1\"
\"file_2\"
\"file_3\"
\"file_4\"
\"file_5\"
\"file_6\"
\"file_11\"

how can you sort them so

Answer 1

A simple way is to pad the numeric portion like so:

file_00001
file_00002
file_00010
file_00011

etc.

But this reles on knowing the maximum value the numeric portion can take.