Sort content of .CSV after first appearance of number-CodePudding

i would like to sort my Server-list in quite an unusal way. So far i managed to sort my CSV-file with Powershell like this:

import-csv path | sort-object Name | export-csv path -useculture -notypeinformation

Name,IP,...
Server100,stuff,...
Server200,stuff,...
Server300,stuff,...
vServer100,stuff,...
vServer200,stuff,...
vServer300,stuff,...

But i would really like to sort them like this:

Name,IP,...
Server100,stuff,...
vServer100,stuff,...
Server200,stuff,...
vServer200,stuff,...
Server300,stuff,...
vServer300,stuff,...

Read something about regex, but i'm quite new to scripting and can't figure it out.

CodePudding user response：

You can pass a scriptblock or a calculated property definition as the -Property argument:

Import-Csv $path |Sort-Object {  $($_.Name -replace '\D') }, Name |...

The regex operation $_.Name -replace '\D' will take the value of the Name property (eg. vServer100) and remove any non-digits.
The in front of the subexpression converts the resulting string (eg. "100") to a number (eg. 100).

After sorting on this number, Sort-Object will then order by Name, so ServerXXX appears before vServerXXX