Comments on: Easy table sorting with jQuery

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:33:42 +0000

bnaffas; have you tried creating your own parser for the column that contains the percentages? Something like:

    $.tablesorter.addParser({
        id     : 'percentages',
        type   : 'numeric',
        is     : function(s) { return false; },
        format : function(s) {
            var reg = /(.*?)%/i;
            if (reg.test(s)) {
                var match = reg.exec(s);
                return parseInt(match[1]);
            } else {
                return parseInt(s);
            }
        }
    });

And than you include it such as:

$("table").tablesorter({
  headers: {
    3: { sorter:'percentages' }
  }
});

where ‘3′ is the column number where your percentages are.

As I’ve just got it together this morning, I can’t promise the above is exact!

By: bnaffas

bnaffas — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:05:20 +0000

I am using this sorting library too. Have you run into an issue with sorting percents?

Given the following values { 2.0%, 25%, 10% }, the library will sort the values as {10%, 2.0%, 25% } because of the plain text sorting on the 1 versus the 2 (in both 2.0 and 25).

By: Uzume

Uzume — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:30:14 +0000

Hi Andy,

This is a bit off topic but I have not heard from you in a long time and I was wondering what was up. I noticed all the topics on your PHP forum are locked and the talker site seems to be down (always just says “It works!” or some such).

I was not sure what the best way to contact you was.

Cheers,
Uzume