Incorrect MAC addresses sorting

[revolter]

For these entries:

02-E5-27-38-DB-CF
00-55-DA-52-FA-15
1C-69-7A-6B-15-9D

this extension sorts them as:

00-55-DA-52-FA-15
1C-69-7A-6B-15-9D
02-E5-27-38-DB-CF

instead of:

00-55-DA-52-FA-15
02-E5-27-38-DB-CF
1C-69-7A-6B-15-9D

Diff

 00-55-DA-52-FA-15
-1C-69-7A-6B-15-9D
 02-E5-27-38-DB-CF
+1C-69-7A-6B-15-9D

[alexandru-dinu]

Hello,

Apologies for the inconvenience.
As mentioned in the README, Sortable currently supports numbers, strings, ISO dates.

I am rethinking the support for multiple data types, but in the meantime, if you are willing to contribute a fix, feel free to do so!

[revolter]

As mentioned in the README, Sortable currently supports numbers, strings, ISO dates.

Yes, I got that. But what I don't understand is that even sorting them as simple strings should work. You can verify it using a tool like https://texttools.org/sort-text.

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Actually, isn't it because you're enabling numeric here:

obsidian-sortable/src/sortable.ts

Line 112 in cbdfea4

const collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, { numeric: true, sensitivity: "base" });

?

[alexandru-dinu]

Yes, it's due to the collator used for the natural sorting which interprets 02 > 1C.

Errors like this will continue to pop up, but I don't want to bodge things anymore, rather rethink the method from the ground up. I like the Wikipedia approach of specifying a data-sort-type attribute or just letting the user write a custom comparator function for the column they want to sort (#12).

In the meantime, feel free to patch the source to suit your needs.