[Tutor] How to numerically sort strings that start with numbers?

[Joel Goldstick]

> > ['3zxc','21 trewuuioi','134445']
> > > rather than ['134445', '21 trewuuioi', '3zxc']?
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated
> > > Pete
>
> There seem to be two different ways of understand the OP sort order.
>

The way I took it, 3zxc comes first because the number is 3 which is smaller
than 21 which is smaller than 134445.

It happened to be a coincidence that the list reversed was in that same
order.

So, if I am right about the definition of how to sort, the method I would
use is to strip each string of anything beyond its leading digits, save that
as a key, use the string as the value.  Then sort by key

-- 
Joel Goldstick
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