Question

I have a jQgrid column which would show data as in the below example.

1. 5 of 10
2. 2 of 2
3. 5 of 5
4. 2 of 10…. etc

   I wanna implement a custom sorting which would sort first based on the number before ‘of’ and then for duplicates it should use the number after the ‘of’.

I have implemented the main sort using the following function.

sorttype: function (cellValue, cellObject) {
                        var sortValueArr = cellValue.split(" ");
                        return parseInt(sortValueArr[0]);
                        //return [parseInt(sortValueArr[0]), parseInt(sortValueArr[2])];
                    }

But am stuck up implementing the secondary-sort-for-duplicates. I tried it with the commented line above. But it is not working.

Please help me out.

The output required is

1. 2 of 2
2. 2 of 10
3. 5 of 5
4. 5 of 10

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well, it’s not a pretty answer, but you if you know a hard maximum for the second number, you can run it as a float. For example, if you can be sure that the second number won’t get above, say, 1000, you might use the following

sorttype: function (cellValue, cellObject)
{
    var sortValueArr = cellValue.split(" ");
    return (parseFloat(sortValueArr[0]) + parseFloat(sortValueArr[2])/1000);
}