tablesort/_site/src/sorts/tablesort.filesize.js

A sorting component for HTML tables

// Filesizes. e.g. '5.35 K', '10 MB', '12.45 GB', or '4.67 TiB'
(function(){
  var compareNumber = function(a, b) {
    a = parseFloat(a);
    b = parseFloat(b);

    a = isNaN(a) ? 0 : a;
    b = isNaN(b) ? 0 : b;

    return a - b;
  },

  cleanNumber = function(i) {
    return i.replace(/[^\-?0-9.]/g, '');
  },

  // Returns suffix multiplier
  // Ex. suffix2num('KB') -> 1000
  // Ex. suffix2num('KiB') -> 1024
  suffix2num = function(suffix) {
    suffix = suffix.toLowerCase();
    var base = suffix[1] === 'i' ? 1024 : 1000;

    switch(suffix[0]) {
      case 'k':
        return Math.pow(base, 2);
      case 'm':
        return Math.pow(base, 3);
      case 'g':
        return Math.pow(base, 4);
      case 't':
        return Math.pow(base, 5);
      case 'p':
        return Math.pow(base, 6);
      case 'e':
        return Math.pow(base, 7);
      case 'z':
        return Math.pow(base, 8);
      case 'y':
        return Math.pow(base, 9);
      default:
        return base;
    }
  },
  
  // Converts filesize to bytes
  // Ex. filesize2num('123 KB') -> 123000
  // Ex. filesize2num('123 KiB') -> 125952
  filesize2num = function(filesize) {
    var matches = filesize.match(/^(\d+(\.\d+)?) ?((K|M|G|T|P|E|Z|Y|B$)i?B?)$/i);

    var num  = parseFloat(cleanNumber(matches[1])),
      suffix = matches[3];

    return num * suffix2num(suffix);
  };

  Tablesort.extend('filesize', function(item) {
    return /^\d+(\.\d+)? ?(K|M|G|T|P|E|Z|Y|B$)i?B?$/i.test(item);
  }, function(a, b) {
    a = filesize2num(a);
    b = filesize2num(b);

    return compareNumber(b, a);
  });
}());