How To Ignore "-" And "." Characters In A Value During Sort Comparison?

I have an html page that has a field that can be sorted. I also have created a javascript function that can sort that field in order. Let's imagine p_cSort is the 'id' name of that

Solution 1:

Why don't you make a custom sort function liek this:

var x = ['12.5', '11.3', '13-5', '10-0'];
x.sort(function(a, b){
    a = a.replace(/[-]/, '.');
    b = b.replace(/[-]/, '.');
    if( parseInt(a) < parseInt(b) ) return -1;
    if( parseInt(a) > parseInt(b) ) return1;
    return0;
});

Output:

["10-0", "11.3", "12.5", "13-5"]

This will also work if you have 125.5 and so on. because the . and the - are both used in the compare.

Example with >= 100

So input:

["100-0", "11.3", "12.5", "13-5"]

Will output

["11.3", "12.5", "13-5", "100-0"]

Solution 2:

Short answer is using replace and sort function:

"12.34".replace(/[.-]/, '')

Full answer

var a = ["12.34", "12-35", "12.36", "12-33"];
var b = a.sort(function(a, b){
 returnparseInt(a.replace(/[.-]/, '')) - parseInt(b.replace(/[.-]/, ''))
});
// now b contain sorted array// ["12-33", "12.34", "12-35", "12.36"]