custom sorting in powershell

Question

I have filenames in following format:

[ignore-prefix]-[important-middle]-[ignore-suffix]-[name-with-digits]

I need to sort according to fo

Answer 1

Does this do it?

 ls | sort { ($_ -split '-')[1] }

       Directory: C:\users\js\foo


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        7/22/2019   5:20 PM             10 pre-aaa-zuf-joe111
-a----        7/22/2019   5:20 PM             10 bre-aab-suf-joe112
-a----        7/22/2019   5:20 PM             10 pre-aac-auf-joe113