From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-02-25T12:26:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11509] Re: Sorting

Wilka wrote:
>Does Ruby already have an compare method that takes into account numbers
>inside a string? i.e.
>
>strings = Array.new
>strings.push "Name 300"
>strings.push "Name 1"
>strings.push "Name 10"
>strings.push "Name 2"
>
>strings.sort do |a, b|
>     # something to put here to sort like a human would
>end

This works:

strings = [ "Name 300", "Name 1", "Name 10", 
"Name 2" ]
b = strings.sort do | a, b |
	a.split <=> b.split
end
p strings
p b

Kevin