[KLUG Members] PHP and regular expression problem

[Adam Williams]

>>8AB00610 -> 8AB610
>>8AB00611 -> 8AB611
>>8AB00001 -> 8AB1
>>Then natural ordering will still worth even with absent zeros.
>Won't that sort 8AB10 before 8AB2?

Thats "Ordinal Ordering"

>Or does "natural ordering" mean something different in PHP that I
>don't know about?

?  "Natural Ordering" is "Natural Ordering"
http://naturalordersort.org/

$arr2 = array("img12.png","img10.png","img2.png","img1.png");
usort($arr2,"strnatcmp");
print_r($arr2);

will produce

Array
(
    [0] => img1.png
    [1] => img2.png
    [2] => img10.png
    [3] => img12.png
)

>I'm assuming you always have three characters before the zeroes?
>Sounds like you don't want
>8AB601 -> 8AB61
>In perl I'd just do s/^(.{3})0+/$1/ which strips any zeroes after
>the first three chars.

Hmmm. Thats usually true,  only some are like 12CL????.  Really no rhyme 
or reason.  I think I'll just toss ones out that aren't the same length,  
and make a list of the ones that can't be matched.  Make the bald monkeys 
key them all back in.