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JavaScript strnatcasecmp

Returns the result of case-insensitive string comparison using 'natural' algorithm

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function strnatcasecmp (str1, str2) {
    // Returns the result of case-insensitive string comparison using 'natural' algorithm  
    // 
    // version: 909.322
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/strnatcasecmp    // +      original by: Martin Pool
    // + reimplemented by: Pierre-Luc Paour
    // + reimplemented by: Kristof Coomans (SCK-CEN (Belgian Nucleair Research Centre))
    // + reimplemented by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +      bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)    // *     example 1: strnatcasecmp(10, 1);
    // *     returns 1: 1
    // *     example 1: strnatcasecmp('1', '10');
    // *     returns 1: -1
    var a = (str1+'').toLowerCase();    var b = (str2+'').toLowerCase();
 
    var isWhitespaceChar = function (a) {
        return a.charCodeAt(0) <= 32;
    }; 
    var isDigitChar = function (a) {
        var charCode = a.charCodeAt(0);
        return ( charCode >= 48  && charCode <= 57 );
    }; 
    var compareRight = function (a,b) {
        var bias = 0;
        var ia = 0;
        var ib = 0; 
        var ca;
        var cb;
 
        // The longest run of digits wins.  That aside, the greatest        // value wins, but we can't know that it will until we've scanned
        // both numbers to know that they have the same magnitude, so we
        // remember it in BIAS.
        for (;; ia++, ib++) {
            ca = a.charAt(ia);            cb = b.charAt(ib);
 
            if (!isDigitChar(ca) &&
                !isDigitChar(cb)) {
                return bias;            } else if (!isDigitChar(ca)) {
                return -1;
            } else if (!isDigitChar(cb)) {
                return +1;
            } else if (ca < cb) {                if (bias == 0) {
                    bias = -1;
                }
            } else if (ca > cb) {
                if (bias == 0) {                    bias = +1;
                }
            } else if (ca == 0 && cb == 0) {
                return bias;
            }        }
    };
 
    var ia = 0, ib = 0;
    var nza = 0, nzb = 0;    var ca, cb;
    var result;
 
    while (true) {
        // only count the number of zeroes leading the last number compared        nza = nzb = 0;
 
        ca = a.charAt(ia);
        cb = b.charAt(ib);
         // skip over leading spaces or zeros
        while (isWhitespaceChar( ca ) || ca =='0') {
            if (ca == '0') {
                nza++;
            } else {                // only count consecutive zeroes
                nza = 0;
            }
 
            ca = a.charAt(++ia);        }
 
        while (isWhitespaceChar( cb ) || cb == '0') {
            if (cb == '0') {
                nzb++;            } else {
                // only count consecutive zeroes
                nzb = 0;
            }
             cb = b.charAt(++ib);
        }
 
        // process run of digits
        if (isDigitChar(ca) && isDigitChar(cb)) {            if ((result = compareRight(a.substring(ia), b.substring(ib))) != 0) {
                return result;
            }
        }
         if (ca == 0 && cb == 0) {
            // The strings compare the same.  Perhaps the caller
            // will want to call strcmp to break the tie.
            return nza - nzb;
        } 
        if (ca < cb) {
            return -1;
        } else if (ca > cb) {
            return +1;        }
 
        ++ia; ++ib;
    }
}
external links: original PHP docs | raw js source

Examples

Running

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strnatcasecmp(10, 1);
strnatcasecmp('1', '10');

Should return

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-1

Dependencies

No dependencies, you can use this function standalone.

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