The array value should be sort like (alphabetic, numbers and special characters)

Question

I tried to sort like the array as follows:

let students: Set = [\"23412334\",\"&234@fwv\",\"Kofi\", \"Abena\", \"Peter\", \"Kweku\", \"Akosua\"]
let sortedSt         


        

Answer 1

let words = ["23412334","&234@fwv","Kofi", "Abena", "Peter", "Kweku", "Akosua"]

func sortedNumbersLast(words: [String]) -> [String] {
    var startsWithDigit     = [String]()
    var startsWithCharacter = [String]()
    var startsWithSymbol    = [String]()


    for word in words {
        if let first = word.characters.first {
            if first >= "0" && first <= "9" {
                startsWithDigit.append(word)
            }
            else {
                if(!(first >= "a" && first <= "z") && !(first >= "A" && first <= "Z") ){
                    startsWithSymbol.append(word)
                }else{
                    startsWithCharacter.append(word)
                }

            }
        }
    }
    return startsWithCharacter.sorted(by: <) + startsWithDigit.sorted(by: <) + startsWithSymbol.sorted()
}
print(sortedNumbersLast(words: words))

["Abena", "Akosua", "Kofi", "Kweku", "Peter", "23412334", "&234@fwv"]

Modified Answer