Sort Array of numeric & alphabetical elements (Natural Sort)

Question

Suppose I have an array

var arr = [1,5,\"ahsldk\",10,55,3,2,7,8,1,2,75,\"abc\",\"huds\"];

and I try sorting it, I get something like ...

Answer 1

You could do this in one line using String.prototype.localCompare() and get the result you are looking for. Note that the numeric collation option is enabled.

var arr = [1,5,"ahsldk",10,55,3,2,7,8,1,2,75,"abc","huds"];

arr.sort((a,b) => ("" + a).localeCompare(b, undefined, {numeric: true}));

console.log(arr);
// [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 55, 75, "abc", "ahsldk", "huds"]

Maybe add some logic to handle nulls.