How to sort this content?

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Hi I am new one to LINQ, I have one task to sort the content the content may stored like this

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list1(1909-1930,1921-1925,1907–21,1871–1924,2009-10,456–458,58–66)

how to sort this like

any one give explanation how to solve it

Posted 6-Aug-15 2:54am

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Andrew Perkins 6-Aug-15 11:35am

Is the list is a list of strings?

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-08-06T05:00:00

Exactly how you do this will depend on how they are stored.
If those are strings, then it's a little complicated, but it is still possible. Assuming that you want numerical order, first by 1900, then by 1930:

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List<string> list1 = new List<string>() {"1909-1930","1921-1925","1907-21","1871-1924","2009-10","456-458","58-66"};
list1 = list1.OrderBy(s => int.Parse(s.Substring(0, s.IndexOf('-'))))
             .ThenBy(s => int.Parse(s.Substring(s.IndexOf('-'))))
             .ToList();