Sorting Strings

[Jacob Wall]

Hello,

I'm starting to work on a project for the HP Prime calculator, and I quickly realized that it would be quite useful to have a "natural order" sort for lists of strings for this project, see http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html. As far as I know and can tell, this is not currently implemented with the SORT command.

Before I take a crack at implementing the algorithm, I wanted to check if anyone had made such an effort already? If not, it might be an interesting challenge to collaborate on with anyone who is interested. At first glance it looks like it could be somewhat involved because the PPL language doesn't have the wealth of string functionality built in that a language like Python does, for example.

My thoughts so far:
1. Input would be a list of strings
2. Flag to sort by case-sensitive or not, for example A, a, B, b ... instead of A, B ... a, b ...
3. Return sorted list, or original list if less than 2 elements in list

Any comments or interest?

Jacob