> aAbBcCdDeEfF .. etc with everything outside the letter space sorting
> 'naturally' and coming after the letters (I actually don't care too much about
> the last bit honestly they can go where they like as long as it's outside the
> alphabet range).
>
> so
>
> myClass comes before
> MyClass which comes before
> yourClass which comes before
> YourClass
I had to solve this for a different system (sadly, I can't share code) and the
first problem you face is that you need to be more specific with your rules
than what you have. We sorted A before a, but have the following rules:
* "A" < "a"
* "Ab" > "a"
* "Ab" > "aa"
* "Ab" < "ab"
* "Ab" < "ad"
* "Abc" > "ab"
and it turned out that you can't compare one character at a time. Sometimes
you need to look further along the string to decide what your relative orders
are.
(Note, our compare also handled numerics inside the string as well. This was
all complicated enormously because our users think that "File-1" < "File-2" but
"-2" < "-1" ... think about it)
Our approach was to skip over "ambiguous" matches (ie, treat "A"=="a") until
you find a difference, or decide that the strings are the same. If the tails
are different, return that difference. Otherwise return the difference in the
*first* ambiguous match you found.
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