Business
Jobs
  • About Us
  • Solutions
    • Job Postings
      Post your job and receive qualified candidates in 48h.
    • Candidate Assessments
      500+ technical and psychological tests, plus anti-fraud.
    • Headhunting
      Tailor-made executive search from start to finish.
    • Payroll + EOR
      Payroll dispersal and EOR across 15+ LATAM countries.
  • Pricing
  • Jobs

0

115
Views
Sort array by first character then number in JavaScript

There is list of object contains data like below:

[
    {name: 'Foo 1'},
    {name: 'Foo 14'},
    ..
    {name: 'Foo 2'},
    {name: 'Bar 1'},
    {name: 'Bar 15'},
    ...
    {name: 'Bar 2'},
]

I need to sort this as

[
    {name: 'Bar 1'},
    {name: 'Bar 2'},
    ...
    {name: 'Bar 15'},
    {name: 'Foo 1'},
    {name: 'Foo 1'},
    ...
    {name: 'Foo 12'},
]

With classic character sorting 'Foo 14' gets ahead of 'Foo 2' so I need to sort by letter and numbers.

value pattern: There might be multiple words but always ends with number like "word word .. number"

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
2 answers
Answer question

0

You could use Collator#compare for this. The compare() method compares two strings according to the sort order of the Intl.Collator object. Just make sure you pass an options object where you set numeric to true:

const collator = new Intl.Collator("en", {
  numeric: true,
  sensitivity: "base",
});

const arr = [
  { name: "Foo 1" },
  { name: "Baz 21" },
  { name: "Foo 14" },
  { name: "Foo 2" },
  { name: "Bar 1" },
  { name: "Baz 10" },
  { name: "Bar 15" },
  { name: "Bar 2" },
  { name: "Baz 1" },
  { name: "Baz 2" },
];

const sorted = arr.sort((a, b) => collator.compare(a.name, b.name));

console.log(sorted);

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

0

It appears that Intl.Collator is almost twice as fast as localeCompare. So, I would use @ZsoltMeszaros answer.


Using String.prototype.localeCompare():

const arr = [
  { name: "Foo 1" },
  { name: "Baz 21" },
  { name: "Foo 14" },
  { name: "Foo 2" },
  { name: "Bar 1" },
  { name: "Baz 10" },
  { name: "Bar 15" },
  { name: "Bar 2" },
  { name: "Baz 1" },
  { name: "Baz 2" },
];

console.log(arr.sort((a,b)=>a.name.localeCompare(b.name,'en',{numeric : true})))

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
Answer question
Find remote jobs

Discover the new way to find a job!

Top jobs
Top job categories
Business
Post vacancy Pricing Sales
Legal
Terms and conditions Privacy policy
© 2026 PeakU Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Andres GPT
Show me some job opportunities
There's an error!