By nature, a strict computer sorting algorithm would place ’10’ before ‘2’. As a result of comparison on a byte by byte basis, the first byte of the 2 strings are determined in the order that 1 comes before 2, thus placing ’10’ before ‘2’.
However, in a natural sorting algorithm, ‘2’ comes before ’10’. In PHP, you can use the function natsort() instead of a traditional sort():
natsort($images);Which would result in a reordered $images array with number digits in the filenames like this:
Array
(
[3] => img1.png
[2] => img2.png
[1] => img10.png
[0] => img12.png
)
Thanks! It’s sorted a problem I have been having with my remote server (the local server was fine though!).
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. One error though, you have nagsort in your code example.
natsort or nagsort?
Thanks. It’s now corrected as natsort().
I would like to use this on an array of strings which all begin with a number. Specifically, I would like to sort the array returned by scandir()–the files are all named beginning with naturally ordered numbers. Is there a simple way to do this?
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