[ASSIGNMENT] Sort a string with special rules

Question

Given a string with numbers and characters. Sort that string so that characters are sorted in ascending order and numbers in descending order.
characters and numbers as groups keep their places.

Example
a1bc32 -> a3bc21

Have Fun

Answer 1

https://code.sololearn.com/cFLP6L5kmheL/?ref=app

Answer 2

example solution python

https://code.sololearn.com/c1E10EEa90hz

Answer 3

My try is here, thanks @VcC for table idea

https://code.sololearn.com/cI07NUjpY4RU/?ref=app

Answer 4

@Tim... I was born in the sixties(-;

Answer 5

https://code.sololearn.com/cP79Z4YfwdfH/?ref=app

Answer 6

how about symbols? Should they come before or after letters?

Answer 7

@jonathan treat symbols like characters.
We have two groups:
numbers/nonNumbers

Answer 8

https://code.sololearn.com/cpNY5BmPDwnq/?ref=app

Answer 9

Tried now in Kotlin
https://code.sololearn.com/cFwKd8WkcKGr

Answer 10

heres it...just hurried so its not a one liner

https://code.sololearn.com/cC8LRFqUhy46/?ref=app

Answer 11

@Oma
In your question you say
"characters and numbers as groups keep their places."
yet in the example you show
Example
a1bc32 -> a3bc21

is 32 not a number group?

Answer 12

this is your homework?

Answer 13

@VcC How will this keep numbers on a number place?

Answer 14

My version:

https://code.sololearn.com/cvrlWfScxpo2/?ref=app

Answer 15

So I just have to follow their ascii values?

Answer 16

the code now uses only one array...
bit smaller##edited

Answer 17

@vcc it is a bit tricky.,,

Answer 18

@oma use a table giving the priority of ezch char then key=lambda c:table.index(c)

Answer 19

Simple commented code. Would love comments =)
https://code.sololearn.com/c3a58v5cke0b/?ref=app

Answer 20

Python: sorted(s,key=whatever you want)