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natural-compare-lite
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The natural-compare-lite npm package is designed for comparing strings in a way that humans might naturally order them. This is particularly useful when sorting lists of strings that include numbers, as it ensures that numerical parts are compared numerically rather than lexicographically. For example, 'item2' will come before 'item10', which is not the case with standard string comparison.
Natural String Comparison
This feature allows for the natural comparison of strings, especially useful for sorting arrays where elements contain numbers. The provided code demonstrates sorting an array of strings in a natural order.
"use strict";\nconst naturalCompare = require('natural-compare-lite');\nconsole.log(['item10', 'item2'].sort(naturalCompare)); // ['item2', 'item10']
This package offers functionality similar to natural-compare-lite, providing natural string comparison capabilities. It differs in implementation details and possibly in performance characteristics, but serves a similar purpose of comparing strings in a human-friendly way.
Alphanum-sort is another package that provides natural string sorting capabilities. It allows for additional customization options such as case sensitivity and whether to treat whitespace and punctuation as part of the sorting criteria. This makes it a versatile alternative to natural-compare-lite, depending on the specific needs of a project.
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var a = ["z1.doc", "z10.doc", "z17.doc", "z2.doc", "z23.doc", "z3.doc"]
a.sort(String.natural_compare)
Copyright (c) 2012 Lauri Rooden <lauri@rooden.ee>
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Compare strings containing a mix of letters and numbers in the way a human being would in sort order.
The npm package natural-compare-lite receives a total of 7,341,938 weekly downloads. As such, natural-compare-lite popularity was classified as popular.
We found that natural-compare-lite demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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