[removed] natural sort of alphanumerical strings

Question

I\'m looking for the easiest way to sort an array that consists of numbers and text, and a combination of these.

E.g.

\'123asd\'
\'19asd\'
\'12345asd\'         


        

Answer 1

The most fully-featured library to handle this as of 2019 seems to be natural-orderby.

const { orderBy } = require('natural-orderby')

const unordered = [
  '123asd',
  '19asd',
  '12345asd',
  'asd123',
  'asd12'
]

const ordered = orderBy(unordered)

// [ '19asd',
//   '123asd',
//   '12345asd',
//   'asd12',
//   'asd123' ]

It not only takes arrays of strings, but also can sort by the value of a certain key in an array of objects. It can also automatically identify and sort strings of: currencies, dates, currency, and a bunch of other things.

Surprisingly, it's also only 1.6kB when gzipped.