sort_nat: Natural Order Sort

Sort strings in natural order.

Version 1.3.0 (2.23 KB)
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22 Jan 2011
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Douglas Schwarz (2026). sort_nat: Natural Order Sort (https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10959-sort_nat-natural-order-sort), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.3.0

Fixed bug identified by Evgeny Pr. (Thanks!)
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1.2.0

Added ability to sort in descending order.
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1.1.0

Steve Herman identified an obscure bug (sorting a cell array of one string which has no numeric characters) which has now been fixed. Thank you Steve!
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1.0.0

Fixed ambiguity of sort order in certain cases e.g., {'a0','a00'}. Increased speed. Relaxed MATLAB version requirements -- no longer requires R2006a, should work with much older versions now.
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