如何强制某些字符串在javascript中排序?

时间:2014-06-18 15:58:44

标签: javascript sorting

我尝试按字母顺序对字符串数组进行排序,但某些字符串除外(例如"NA""Wild")应始终放在最后。排序优先级应为sorted_values_alphabetically < "NA" < "Wild"

如果我们有以下数组:

["Wild", "sit", "ipsum", "dolor", "NA", "amet", "lorem"];

我希望将其排序为:

["amet", "dolor", "ipsum", "lorem", "sit", "NA", "Wild"];

我在想像

这样的东西
arr.sort(function(a,b) {
  var aVal = a, bVal = b;

  // Hack to make values < "NA" < "Wild"
  if (aVal == "NA") aVal = "zzz" + aVal;
  if (bVal == "NA") bVal = "zzz" + bVal;
  if (aVal == "Wild") aVal = "zzzz" + aVal;
  if (bVal == "Wild") bVal = "zzzz" + bVal;

  return aVal.toLowerCase().localeCompare(bVal.toLowerCase());
});

但这可能对所有Unicode字符都不起作用。

我也对高性能算法感兴趣!

性能

仅供参考,T. J. Crowder的算法通过jsPerf稍微提高了性能。 Altohugh我更喜欢Halcyon更简洁的方法!

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

您可以为排序功能添加例外。我得到了一个聪明的数学:

arr.sort(function(a,b) {
     var exceptions = [ "NA", "Wild" ], indexA, indexB;
     indexA = exceptions.indexOf(a);
     indexB = exceptions.indexOf(b);
     if (indexA === -1 && indexB === -1) {
         return a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(b.toLowerCase()); // regular case
     }
     return indexA - indexB; // index will be -1 (doesn't occur), 0 or 1
});

答案 1 :(得分:1)

基本上,所有字符串都小于"Wild",除"Wild"以外的所有字符串都小于"NA"。您传入sort的功能应返回负数(如果a < b0如果a == b,则返回正数a > b。因此,您可以通过返回适当的值来处理特殊情况:

arr.sort(function(a,b) {

  // Everything is less than "Wild"
  if (a === "Wild") {
    return 1;  // a is greater than b
  }
  if (b === "Wild") {
    return -1; // b is greater than a
  }

  // Everything else is less than "NA"
  if (a === "NA") {
    return 1;  // a is greater than b
  }
  if (b === "NA") {
    return -1; // b is greater than a
  }

  // Normal result
  return a.toLowerCase().localeCompare(a.toLowerCase());
});

Live Examplesource

(显然,详细的评论会让它看起来比实际更长......)