any plugin like any-number, except for dates?

sethdarr

Hi! I have a column whose values are in the form of

"[some number] ( MM/DD/YY )"

and I would like to be able to sort on just the date value. Kind of like the "any-number" plug-in, except with dates.

I had hopes for the solution in this article, but I must be too much of a newb to get it.

Any advice?

allan

The article you link to will be a good start - although that is only really for data which contains a date only.

What you probably need to do here is create a custom ordering plug-in which will extract the date part only (perhaps using a regex) and then convert it to a number that can be sorted. Your plug-in should then return that and DataTables will sort it correctly.

Allan