Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#11021 new Feature Requests
Natural sort
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Marshall Clow | |
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| Milestone: | To Be Determined | Component: | string_algo |
| Version: | Boost 1.57.0 | Severity: | Cosmetic |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Alphabetically sorting gives unwanted results for humans. For example the following strings get sorted this way: Arena 1 Arena 10 Arena 2
What humans like is: Arena 1 Arena 2 Arena 10
This is not trivial since the numbers can appear anywhere. Would this be a nice extension for Boost as well? Microsoft has solved this in StrCmpLogicalW. See also 'sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order' (can't include a link; I get a trac-think-it-is-a-spam error).
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 7 years ago
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
I think that it will be a good extension to Boost.Algortihm. In the Internet there are many implementations of Natural Sort (also, in C++). I think we can add this algorithm to the library in easy way.
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I too think NaturalSort can be a good extension, Thus I have tried an implementation for NaturalSort here https://github.com/scopeInfinity/NaturalSort , Can you please take a look at it. Or guide me to make it better.