Question

I woud like to sort an array which typically includes names and email addresses. The problem is that the email addresses appear last even though they may start with ‘a’

e.g.

$myarray = ("Alex Mayfeild", "David Beckham", "Oliver Twist", "[e-mail]", "[e-mail]", ........) //and so on

Upon sorting the array using php’s sort function “[e-mail]” will appear close to the end even though the functionality I would like to achieve is for him to appear after Alex.

natcasesort and natsource functions based on natural ordering seem to fail. Correction: natcasesource works it returns true when working as stated in docs. Thanks @meagar

Is there anyway to achieve the requested functionality. Thanks for any help guys. It is very much appreciated.

Answer 1

sort() is case sensitive, as it sorts based on the letters ASCII value.

Try natcasesort(), if you want too “sort an array using a case insensitive ‘natural order’ algorithm”.