Question

I am using latest version of the tablesorter plugin and I need to sort a column in a special way.

Values can be like this:

I need to order by the date, so values like Q4 (31-12-2010) should show up as the first

The date format is like: dd-mm-yyyy

Is this even possible?

Answer 1

I redid this using their custom parsers

http://jsfiddle.net/rTrqz/2/

Seems work work for your purposes.

The important parts are here:

$.tablesorter.addParser({
    id: 'quarters',
    is: function (s) {
        return false;
    },
    format: function (s) {
        s = s.toLowerCase().replace(/q[0-9]/,'').replace(/\(/,'').replace(/\)/,'');            
        match = s.match(/(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20\d\d)/);
        return match[3] + match[2] + match[1]; 
    },
    type: 'text'
});