FR: Use `Intl.Collator` to sort "naturally" instead of showing 1, 10, 2, 3, etc. about obsidian-sortable

[alexandru-dinu]

Done in #25 -- thank you for your suggestion!

[alexandru-dinu]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this issue.

Currently, the plugin only sorts numeric and string data types (without assuming any other info).
I will add natural file sorting to the roadmap.

-- Alex

[ManasMadrecha]

Sure.

But, the thing with using Intl.Collator is that you won't need to specify whether the content is text or number; it can sort naturally on its own.

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

<arrayOfObjects>.sort((a, b) => collator.compare(a.something, b.something))

Here, you don't need to check whether the contents of the table cell were text, path, or number.

So, instead of roadmap, could it be kindly implemented immediately?

[alexandru-dinu]

Hi, Thank your for your suggestions. If you have a complete solution in mind, a pull request is more than welcome. Otherwise, I will get back to this as soon as I got the time. Thank you!

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-- Alex

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[alexandru-dinu]

Here, you don't need to check whether the contents of the table cell were text, path, or number.

It appears that the data type still matters:

let xs = [1, 2, -5, 3, 1e100, -1e100];
const c = new Intl.Collator(undefined, {numeric: true, sensitivity: 'base'});
console.log(xs.sort(c.compare))
// > Array [-1e+100, -5, 1, 1e+100, 2, 3]

so I will only use the collator for strings.