Tablesorter 2.0: Sorting column having ICD9 codes

I have a column in a table that contains ICD9 codes. So it can have values like 4379, 5186,45933,V420orE9539`.

For this sorting does not work. It considers a column as a digit type and applies sort. Current output is :

I want this column to be sorted in text manner.

It's output should be

AS you can see I want order to be based on first character, then second character and so on.

How can I achieve this type of sorting.

Solution

I'm not 100% sure which version of tablesorter you're using, so I'll answer for both.

The original tablesorter (tablesorter.com) v2.0.5 isn't showing either of those outputs, but since you want to apply a basic text sort, not a numeric sort, set the headers option to force it to sort text (demo):

$('table').tablesorter({
    headers: {
        0: { sorter: 'text' }
    }
});

If you are using my fork of tablesorter (currently v2.23.3), then the basic alphanumeric sort does produce the output above. To switch to using a basic text sort, set the textSorter option to use the basic text sort (demo):

$(function () {
    $('table').tablesorter({
        theme: 'blue',
        textSorter: {
            // use sortText on the first column only
            0 : $.tablesorter.sortText
        }
    });
});