Angular Material Table Alphanumeric Sorting Behaviour

Question

I'm having a problem in Angular Material Table, although it is technically correct, but I'm thinking if there's another way around for this.

Let say that I do have 5 codes, F1, F2, F5, F9, F10.

The Angular Material Table ascending sort order of this will be,

F1
F10
F2
F5
F9

But I'm expecting it to be

F1
F2
F5
F9
F10

My html code is here

<table mat-table [dataSource]="model.financingPurposeList" class="mat-elevation-z8" width="100%">

   <ng-container matColumnDef="code">
       <th mat-header-cell *matHeaderCellDef mat-sort-header> Code </th>
       <td mat-cell *matCellDef="let financingPurpose"> {{financingPurpose.code}} </td>
   </ng-container>

   <ng-container matColumnDef="description">
       <th mat-header-cell *matHeaderCellDef> Description </th>
       <td mat-cell *matCellDef="let financingPurpose"> {{financingPurpose.description}} </td>
   </ng-container>

   <tr mat-header-row *matHeaderRowDef="['code', 'description']; sticky: true"></tr>
   <tr mat-row *matRowDef="let row; columns: ['code', 'description'];" (click)="model.selectedFinancingPurpose.toggle(row)"></tr>

</table>

Is there a possible way to do this?

Related Link:

Natural Sorting

Sorting column containing both numbers and strings

Answer 1

This isn't the best solution for this, but I created a short and sweet workaround for this. Using the sort predicate function of the array.

// Following the example to the question

financingPurposeList.sort(function(a, b){
   return a.code.length - b.code.length;
});

Answer 2

You can do something like this.

var collator = new Intl.Collator(undefined, {numeric: true, sensitivity: 'base'});
var myArray = ['F1',
'F10',
'F2',
'F5',
'F9'];
console.log(myArray.sort(collator.compare));

Answer 3

You can achieve that by adding sort function after getting the data.

usage:

ngOnInit() {
this.dataSource.data.sort((a, b) => (a.code- b.code) );
  }