From: Ed <pyroguy@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T03:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple array of strings sorting

On Feb 21, 1:06 pm, William James <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 11:54 am, Ed <pyro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Say I have an array of strings that looks like this:
> > test-3
> > test-31
> > test-11
> > test-12
> > test-13
> > test-32
> > test-10
> > test-14
>
> > I want them sorted like so:
> > test-3
> > test-10
> > test-11
> > test-12
> > test-13
> > test-14
> > test-31
> > test-32
>
> > arr.sort doesn't seem to work the way I need. Any help?
> > Thanks
>
> The sequences of numerals need to be treated as numbers,
> not strings.
>
> " test-3
> test-31
> test-11
> test-12
> test-13
> test-32
> test-10
> test-14 ".split.sort_by{|s| s[/\d+/].to_i}
>     ==>["test-3", "test-10", "test-11", "test-12", "test-13",
> "test-14", "test-31", "test-32"]

Thanks for the response.
arr.split.sort_by{ |s| s[/\d+/].to_i }  produces this error message:
"can't convert Regexp into Integer"