I needed a function that will compare Library of Congress call numbers. I found a function in PERL to do this on Joshua McGee’s site, but I needed it in PHP and our call numbers use a space instead of a period for some of the separators, for example: HA 1107 K49 2003.
Here is the function in PHP:
Code: |
//is call number $a larger than call number $b?
function locsort ($a,$b)
{
$pattern =’/^([A-Z]+)\s?(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s?([A-Z]*)(\d*)\.?([A-Z]*)(\d*)( (?:\d{4})?)?(.*)?/’;
$i = preg_match($pattern, $a, $regsA);
$j = preg_match($pattern, $b, $regsB);
if (($i==0)||($j==0)) {
return($a > $b);
}
else {
//if first part greater then return that
//if first part equal, check second part, return that
if ($regsA[1] != $regsB[1]){
return($regsA[1] > $regsB[1]);
}
else {
if ($regsA[2] != $regsB[2]){
return ($regsA[2] > $regsB[2]);
}
else {
if ($regsA[3] != $regsB[3]){
return ($regsA[3] > $regsB[3]);
}
else{
if ($regsA[4] != $regsB[4]){
return ((“0.”.$regsA[4]) > (“0.”.$regsB[4]));
}
else {
if ($regsA[5] != $regsB[5]){
return ($regsA[5] > $regsB[5]);
}
else {
if ($regsA[6] != $regsB[6]){
return ($regsA[6] > $regsB[6]);
}
else {
if ($regsA[7] != $regsB[7]){
return ($regsA[7] > $regsB[7]);
}
else {
return ($regsA[8] > $regsB[8]);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
} |
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