it is not really possible to sort that way using strings, it will alsways put 1 before 2, if it was 02 then it would sort it, you could try splitting the string into a keyvalue pair and convert the numbers to actual numbers, but that would also break because of 22b :)

This is nothing to do with Umbraco, it is just the way string sorting works

You would need to implement a custom IComparer

public class CustomComparer : IComparer<string>
{
    public int Compare(string x, string y)
    {
        var regex = new Regex("(\\d+)");

        // run the regex on both strings
        var xRegexResult = regex.Match(x);
        var yRegexResult = regex.Match(y);

        // check if they are both numbers
        if (xRegexResult.Success && yRegexResult.Success)
        {
            return int.Parse(xRegexResult.Groups[1].Value).CompareTo(int.Parse(yRegexResult.Groups[1].Value));
        }

        // otherwise return as string comparison
        return x.CompareTo(y);
    }
}

You would then use it like

var myComparer = new CustomComparer();
myListOfStrings.Sort(myComparer);

Thanks! I really appreciate your help!

Forgive my stupidity! Can you give an example of how to implement this in my use case:

 var apartments = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("f3c9c894-16e5-491e-b39f-77bf2cb13c6f")).ChildrenOfType("ApartmentItem").Where(x => x.IsVisible()).OrderBy(x => x.Value("apartmentItemStatus").ToString().Replace(" ", "")).ThenBy(x => x.Name.ToString().Replace(" ", "")).ToList();

Should I place the class in App_Code? I have done that now and if I use your example I get:

cannot convert from 'holmemollevej.App_Code.CustomComparer' to 'System.Collections.Generic.IComparer<Umbraco.Core.Models.PublishedContent.IPublishedContent>'

No guarentees, but try this

Create a new CustomNameComparer.cs file, you should be able to create it anywhere in your project.

public class CustomNameComparer : IComparer<IPublishedContent>
{
    public int Compare(IPublishedContent x, IPublishedContent y)
    {
        var regex = new Regex("(\\d+)");

        // run the regex on both strings
        var xRegexResult = regex.Match(x.Name);
        var yRegexResult = regex.Match(y.Name);

        // check if they are both numbers
        if (xRegexResult.Success && yRegexResult.Success)
        {
            return int.Parse(xRegexResult.Groups[1].Value).CompareTo(int.Parse(yRegexResult.Groups[1].Value));
        }

        // otherwise return as string comparison
        return x.Name.CompareTo(y.Name);
    }
}

where you are doing

var apartments = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("f3c9c894-16e5-491e-b39f-77bf2cb13c6f")).ChildrenOfType("ApartmentItem").Where(x => x.IsVisible()).OrderBy(x => x.Value("apartmentItemStatus").ToString().Replace(" ", "")).ThenBy(x => x.Name.ToString().Replace(" ", "")).ToList();

Change it to

var apartments = Umbraco.Content(Guid.Parse("f3c9c894-16e5-491e-b39f-77bf2cb13c6f")).ChildrenOfType("ApartmentItem").Where(x => x.IsVisible()).OrderBy(x => x.Value("apartmentItemStatus").ToString().Replace(" ", "")).ToList();
var myComparer = new CustomNameComparer ();
apartments.Sort(myComparer);

I had to move the order by apartmentItemStatus to a new var with the list after sorting, but other than that it works perfectly!

Thanks for the help! Really appreciate it!

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