JavaScript Sort Alphanumeric Floats

Asked Jun 06 '17 at 07:29

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I am trying to sort questions by their numbers. The numbers may include spaces or dots as spacers. So a sorted set may look like the following:

'1', '1.1', '1.2', '1.2.1', '1.2.a', '1.2 a', '1.2.b', '1.2.c', '1.5', '1.2a', '2', '3', '20'

I guess the first thing would be to replace all spaces with dots and then sort the set as a floating point integers whereby a, b, c... comes after 7, 8, 9

edited Jun 06 '17 at 07:42

asked Jun 06 '17 at 07:29

Timothy

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what is 1.2a ? ? – Mahi Jun 06 '17 at 07:31
I'd probably replace all the spaces with dots, split it, then do a localeCompare since you have letters as well – A. L Jun 06 '17 at 07:32
what means ***float*** in the question? – Nina Scholz Jun 06 '17 at 07:33
really '1.2a' after '1.5' ? – vassiliskrikonis Jun 06 '17 at 07:36
*Codes?* Same question mate. Please share your attempt. – Rajesh Jun 06 '17 at 07:38
@Mahi Yes its 1.21 – Timothy Jun 06 '17 at 07:43
@vassiliskrikonis yes – Timothy Jun 06 '17 at 07:43
Maybe this answer helps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2802341/javascript-natural-sort-of-alphanumerical-strings – Roman Hocke Jun 06 '17 at 07:45
@Rajesh i am working on something – Timothy Jun 06 '17 at 07:45
This kind of solves it. There is a slight difference in sort order but I can prevent spaces using validation. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40150011/sort-array-of-objects-with-dots-letters-numbers-i-was-able-to-sort-by-numbers – Timothy Jun 06 '17 at 08:35
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I can't answer anymore, anyway I was already writing my solution, see [this fiddle](https://jsfiddle.net/ha2e7enj/) please, I hope it helps you. Bye – Alessandro Jun 06 '17 at 09:03

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