根据前几个字符串按字母顺序排序数组

Question

I woud like to sort an array which typically includes names and email addresses. The problem is that the email addresses appear last even though they may start with 'a'

eg

$myarray = ("Alex Mayfeild", "David Beckham", "Oliver Twist", "ant.stev@wherever.com", "peter.pan@neverland.com", ........) //and so on

Upon sorting the array using php's sort function "ant.stev@wherever.com" will appear close to the end even though the functionality I would like to achieve is for him to appear after Alex.

natcasesort and natsource functions based on natural ordering seem to fail. Correction: natcasesource works it returns true when working as stated in docs. Thanks @meagar

Is there anyway to achieve the requested functionality. Thanks for any help guys. It is very much appreciated.

Answer 1

sort() is case sensitive, as it sorts based on the letters ASCII value.

Try natcasesort() , if you want too "sort an array using a case insensitive 'natural order' algorithm".

Answer 2

Seems to me that sort($myarray, SORT_STRING|SORT_FLAG_CASE); should sort the array the way you want.