Ignore "The" and "A" when sorting a listview in C#
.net, c#, listview, sorting
Solution
What you could do is to create a customer comparer and set it on your `ListView` instance using the ListView.ListViewItemSorter property. Then, your comparer is responsible for remvoing "the" and "a" from the start of the items being compared.
When your `ListView` is sorted, it will use this custom comparer to sort with, but the original values including "the" and "a" will be used as display values in the `ListView` (ie. you do not need to modify the values you put in the `ListView` - the comparer just ignores the words you want it to when sorting).
Problem
Currently I am making a mini music player / organizer for myself. However, when using a list view, it sorts alphabetically, and doesn't ignore "The" and "A": - A Lot Like Me - Adiago For Strings - Stay Crunchy - The Foresaken - Time to Pretend should be: - Adiago For Strings - The Foresaken - A Lot Like Me - Stay Crunchy - Time To Pretend It's all loaded from a multi-dimensional array, and I've even tried filtering out "The" and "A" manually, and then display the real name (from a different array), but then it just sorts the displayed name (including "The" and "A")