csharp-natural-sort - Natural sort functionality using the IComparer for C# with generics support, datetime sorting, etc

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Simple implementation of IComparer for "natural" sorting of mixed content types such as numeric, datetime and strings via "chunks" aka "tokens".

Has support for natural sorting of Dictionary/Hashtables by a specific column as well as Lists/Arrays.

examples

before	`["img100.jpg","img10.jpg","img2.jpg"]`
after	`["img2.jpg","img10.jpg","img100.jpg"]` (90ms)

before	`["car.mov","01alpha.sgi","001alpha.sgi","my.string_41299.tif","organic2.0001.sgi"]`
after	`["001alpha.sgi","01alpha.sgi","car.mov","my.string_41299.tif","organic2.0001.sgi"]` (8ms)

before	`["./system/kernel/js/01_ui.core.js","./system/kernel/js/00_jquery-1.3.2.js","./system/kernel/js/02_my.desktop.js"]`
after	`["./system/kernel/js/00_jquery-1.3.2.js","./system/kernel/js/01_ui.core.js","./system/kernel/js/02_my.desktop.js"]` (2ms)

before	`["1.0.2","1.0.1","1.0.0","1.0.9"]`
after	`["1.0.0","1.0.1","1.0.2","1.0.9"]` (10ms)

before	`["10/12/2008","10/11/2008","10/11/2007","10/12/2007"]`
after	`["10/11/2007","10/12/2007","10/11/2008","10/12/2008"]` (0ms)

before	`["2/15/2009 1:46 PM","1/15/2009 1:45 PM","2/15/2009 1:45 AM"]`
after	`["1/15/2009 1:45 PM","2/15/2009 1:45 AM","2/15/2009 1:46 PM"]` (0ms)

before	`["Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:45:30 PM","Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:45:29 PM","Monday, August 2, 2010 1:45:01 PM","Monday, May 3, 2010 1:45:00 PM"]`
after	`["Monday, May 3, 2010 1:45:00 PM","Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:45:29 PM","Saturday, July 3, 2010 1:45:30 PM","Monday, August 2, 2010 1:45:01 PM"]` (0ms)

before	`["192.168.0.100","192.168.0.1","192.168.1.1","192.168.0.250"]`
after	`["192.168.0.1","192.168.0.100","192.168.0.250","192.168.1.1"]` (2ms)

before	["asd1.3",2,"asd1.2",1]
after	`[1,2,"asd1.2","asd1.3"]` (1ms)

before	`["z22","z20","z 19","z1","z 0","y 1"]`
after	`["y 1","z 0","z1","z 19","z20","z22"]` (1ms)

before	`["001","0034","01","0001","0032"]`
after	`["0001","001","0032","0034","01"]` (0ms)

before	`[{"col":"img100.jpg"},{"col":"img10.jpg"},{"col":"img2.jpg"}]`
after	`[{"col":"img2.jpg"},{"col":"img10.jpg"},{"col":"img100.jpg"}]` (1ms)

before	`[{"col":"1.0.2"},{"col":"1.0.1"},{"col":"1.0.0"},{"col":"1.0.9"}]`
after	`[{"col":"1.0.0"},{"col":"1.0.1"},{"col":"1.0.2"},{"col":"1.0.9"}]` (2ms)

before	`[{"col":"10/12/2008"},{"col":"10/11/2008"},{"col":"10/11/2007"},{"col":"10/12/2007"}]`
after	`[{"col":"10/11/2007"},{"col":"10/12/2007"},{"col":"10/11/2008"},{"col":"10/12/2008"}]` (0ms)

before	`[{"col":"192.168.0.100"},{"col":"192.168.0.1"},{"col":"192.168.1.1"},{"col":"192.168.0.250"}]`
after	`[{"col":"192.168.0.1"},{"col":"192.168.0.100"},{"col":"192.168.0.250"},{"col":"192.168.1.1"}]` (1ms)

before	`[{"col":"asd1.3"},{"col":2},{"col":"asd1.2"},{"col":1}]`
after	`[{"col":1},{"col":2},{"col":"asd1.2"},{"col":"asd1.3"}]` (1ms)