Sorting Dictionary of Strings and Numbers

Question

I have a dictionary object that needs to be sorted, but the keys are date values in the form

[\'Apr. 2013\',\'May 2013\',\'Feb. 2013\',
\'Mar. 2013\',\'Jul. 2013\',\'         


        

Answer 1

The DateValue() function is pretty smart about recognizing dates, no matter how crazily they're formatted. It certainly has no trouble recognizing "Apr. 2013" as 4/1/2013. So in your sort routine, instead of comparing the keys, compare their DateValues.