I’m trying to sort this list of structural framings by their type names, but the sorting is like CB1-CB10-CB11, I need it to be CB1-CB2,CB3, etc, Can anyone help? - I’m sure this is basic stuff but I just can’t figure it out.
Need only sort or need to group also?
@janbarsoum You need something called natural sort.
Try this:
import re
def natural_sort(l):
convert = lambda text: int(text) if text.isdigit() else text.lower()
alphanum_key = lambda key: [ convert(c) for c in re.split('([0-9]+)', key) ]
return sorted(l, key = alphanum_key)
OUT = natural_sort(IN[0])
Alternatively, you can use the Natural Sort node from Orchid package
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