I am having difficulty figuring out a solution.

I have an array similar to this.

// Original array 
const orig_array = ["2", "10", "01A", "1A", "02B", "1","03B"]; 

// The sorted array needs to be like this. 
sorted_array = ["1", "1A", "01A", "2", "02B", "03B", "10"]; 

I have tried writing a custom sort function like this but I am unable to find a solution. I appreciate any help.

 const orig_array = ["2", "10", "01A", "1A", "02B", "1","03B"];

 const sorted_array = orig_array.sort((a, b) => {
  if (a - b) {
   return a - b;
  }
 if (a.localeCompare(b) === -1) {
  return a.length - b.length;
 } else {
 return 1;
}
});
console.log(sorted_array);

CodePudding user response：

You can first apply parseInt to both strings to get the first numeric parts and subtract them. If the numeric parts are equal, then subtract the lengths.

const orig_array = ["2", "10", "01A", "1A", "02B", "1","03B"]; 
console.log(orig_array.sort((a,b)=>parseInt(a)-parseInt(b)||a.length-b.length));

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