Can also be used with combination of a compare for an array nested value, like
<?php
$array = array(
"city" => "xyz",
"names" => array(
array(
"name" => "Ana2",
"id" => 1
) ,
array(
"name" => "Ana1",
"id" => 2
)
)
);
usort($array["names"], function ($a, $b) { return strnatcmp($a['name'], $b['name']);} );
strnatcmp
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
strnatcmp — Confronto tra stringhe con l'algoritmo dell' "ordine naturale"
Descrizione
Questa funzione implementa un algoritmo di confronto che ordina le stringhe alfa-numeriche nel modo con cui lo avrebbe fatto un uomo, questo è detto "ordinamento naturale". Un esempio della differenza tra questo algoritmo e quello solito dei computer (utilizzato da strcmp()) è illustrato di seguito:
<?php
$arr1 = $arr2 = array("img12.png", "img10.png", "img2.png", "img1.png");
echo "Standard string comparison\n";
usort($arr1, "strcmp");
print_r($arr1);
echo "\nNatural order string comparison\n";
usort($arr2, "strnatcmp");
print_r($arr2);
?>
Standard string comparison
Array
(
[0] => img1.png
[1] => img10.png
[2] => img12.png
[3] => img2.png
)
Natural order string comparison
Array
(
[0] => img1.png
[1] => img2.png
[2] => img10.png
[3] => img12.png
)
Al pari delle altre funzioni di confronto tra stringhe, questa restituisce
< 0 se str1 è minore di
str2; > 0 se
str1 è maggiore di
str2, e 0 se sono uguali.
Nota questo confronto distingue tra lettere maiuscole e minuscole.
Vedere anche ereg(), strcasecmp(), substr(), stristr(), strcmp(), strncmp(), strncasecmp(), strnatcasecmp(), strstr(), natsort() e natcasesort().
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User Contributed Notes 4 notes
in dot games dot mq at gmail dot com ¶
7 years ago
thomas at uninet dot se ¶
18 years ago
There seems to be a bug in the localization for strnatcmp and strnatcasecmp. I searched the reported bugs and found a few entries which were up to four years old (but the problem still exists when using swedish characters).
These functions might work instead.
<?php
function _strnatcasecmp($left, $right) {
return _strnatcmp(strtolower($left), strtolower($right));
}
function _strnatcmp($left, $right) {
while((strlen($left) > 0) && (strlen($right) > 0)) {
if(preg_match('/^([^0-9]*)([0-9].*)$/Us', $left, $lMatch)) {
$lTest = $lMatch[1];
$left = $lMatch[2];
} else {
$lTest = $left;
$left = '';
}
if(preg_match('/^([^0-9]*)([0-9].*)$/Us', $right, $rMatch)) {
$rTest = $rMatch[1];
$right = $rMatch[2];
} else {
$rTest = $right;
$right = '';
}
$test = strcmp($lTest, $rTest);
if($test != 0) {
return $test;
}
if(preg_match('/^([0-9]+)([^0-9].*)?$/Us', $left, $lMatch)) {
$lTest = intval($lMatch[1]);
$left = $lMatch[2];
} else {
$lTest = 0;
}
if(preg_match('/^([0-9]+)([^0-9].*)?$/Us', $right, $rMatch)) {
$rTest = intval($rMatch[1]);
$right = $rMatch[2];
} else {
$rTest = 0;
}
$test = $lTest - $rTest;
if($test != 0) {
return $test;
}
}
return strcmp($left, $right);
}
?>
The code is not optimized. It was just made to solve my problem.
chris at ocproducts dot com ¶
7 years ago
This function has some interesting behaviour on strings consisting of mixed numbers and letters.
One may expect that such a mixed string would be treated as alpha-numeric, but that is not true.
var_dump(strnatcmp('23','123')); →
int(-1)
As expected, 23<123 (even though first digit is higher, overall number is smaller)
var_dump(strnatcmp('yz','xyz')); →
int(1)
As expected, yz>xyz (string comparison, irregardless of string length)
var_dump(strnatcmp('2x','12y')); →
int(-1)
Remarkable, 2x<12y (does a numeric comparison)
var_dump(strnatcmp('20x','12y'));
int(1)
Remarkable, 20x>12y (does a numeric comparison)
It seems to be splitting what is being compared into runs of numbers and letters, and then comparing each run in isolation, until it has an ordering difference.
spamspamspam at gmx dot com ¶
6 years ago
Some more remarkable outcomes:
var_dump(strnatcmp("0.15m", "0.2m"));
int(1)
var_dump(strnatcmp("0.15m", "0.20m"));
int(-1)
It's not about localisation:
var_dump(strnatcmp("0,15m", "0,2m"));
int(1)
var_dump(strnatcmp("0,15m", "0,20m"));
int(-1)
