Natural-Order Filename Sort
Alphanumeric sort of filenames or filepaths, with customizable number format.
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Stephen23 (2026). Natural-Order Filename Sort (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47434-natural-order-filename-sort), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
Acknowledgements
Inspired by: asort: a pedestrian alphanumeric string sorter, sort_nat: Natural Order Sort, GetFullPath, Number to Scientific Prefix, Customizable Natural-Order Sort, Number to Words, Natural-Order Row Sort, Words to Number, Scientific Prefix to Number, Next Available Filename, Custom List / Arbitrary Sequence Sort
Inspired: Words to Number, Parametric Mapping Scripts for MRI data, Custom List / Arbitrary Sequence Sort, Customizable Natural-Order Sort, Number to Words, Natural-Order Row Sort, Interactive Regular Expression Tool, Next Available Filename
General Information
- Version 3.4.11 (54 KB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with R2009b and later releases
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
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| 3.4.11 | * Add dependency table. |
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| 3.4.10 | * Update testcases. |
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| 3.4.9 | * Documentation improvements. |
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| 3.4.8 | * convert test function to class. |
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| 3.4.7 | * Add testcases
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| 3.4.6 | * Documentation improvements. |
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| 3.4.5 | * Accept decimal comma as well as decimal point.
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| 3.4.4 | * Add testcases. |
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| 3.4.3 | * Now R2009b compatible. |
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| 3.4.2 | * Edit description & help. |
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| 3.4.1 | * Edit description & help. |
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| 3.4.0 | * Add plenty of testcases.
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| 3.3.0 | * Improve test function, add test cases.
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| 3.2.0 | * Update TESTFUN.
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| 3.1.0 | * More robust TESTFUN pretty-print code.
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| 3.0.5 | * Improve examples. |
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| 3.0.4 | * Correct summary. |
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| 3.0.3 | * Improve string handling. |
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| 3.0.2 | * Simplify numeric class handling.
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| 3.0.1 | * handle single element with no number. |
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| 3.0.0 | * Accepts and sorts the structure returned by DIR.
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| 2.1.2 | * Consistent alignment tab/spaces. |
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| 2.1.1 | * Add error IDs.
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| 2.1.0 | * Fix handling of char<num. |
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| 2.0.0 | * NATSORT total rewrite: faster and less memory.
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| 1.6.0 | * Add (very useful) debugging output argument. |
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| 1.5.0 | * Improve blurb and HTML. |
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| 1.4.0 | * Clearer description of file dependency.
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| 1.3.0 | * Improve function description.
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| 1.2.0 | - Update documentation only, improve examples. |
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| 1.1.0 | - Complete acknowledgements. |
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| 1.0.0 |
