Sort Module Example

The Internet Movie Database provides several RSS feeds - one is a daily list of celebrity birthdays. The list items is in no particular order, making it harder to look for a particular name. We can use the Sort module to alphabetize the list - each item title contains the person's name and their age (if they're still alive). But there's a hitch: the names are formatted like this: John Smith (27) If we alphabetize this list, they're all in first name order - not quite what we want! Luckily, we have the Regex module. With a little pattern matching magic, we can rearrange this name to look like this: Smith, John (27) Now we just need to pass the data through the Sort module, sort by item.title in ascending order, and we have a list arranged by last name. If we wanted to retain the original title format, we could have (before running through Regex) used the Rename module to create a copy of the title (perhaps called sorted_title), then used Regex to modify and Sort to sort the new sorted_title element.