Sort lines (ignore case and articles)

Action

Posted by dchar, Last update almost 5 years ago

Sort lines of a draft ignoring case and leading articles (a, an, the).

Steps

script

// Sort ignoring article

const rmArticle = (s) => {
  return s.replace(/^(?:(a|an|the) +)/g, "");
}
  
const cmp = (a,b) => {
  a = a.toLowerCase();
  b = b.toLowerCase();
    
  a = rmArticle(a);
  b = rmArticle(b);
    
  return a === b ? 0 : a < b ? -1 : 1;
}
  
let l = editor.getText().split('\n');
l = l.filter(l => l.trim());
l.sort(cmp);
editor.setText(l.join('\n') + '\n');

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