Sort a multidimensional array based on its first element

Question

I have successfully sorted the table rows based on its s' contents (table cell with a class of 'text'), so to sharpen the details, I have to:

Get the contents of each table cell having the class text. For each cell:
1. Split it by (
2. Get the first item from the array returned by .split(), and push it to names1
3. Loop through each table row:
  1. Get the row's contents
  2. Split again, while grabbing the returned array's second item
  3. Compare it to the value of the corresponding item from names1

So, my question is how to sort/order alphabetically?

$(document).ready(function() {
  $("table .text").each(function() {
    var this_current = $(this);
    $(this).addClass("dirty");
    var text = $(this).text().replace('(', '').replace(')', '').replace(' ', '');
    $("table .text:not(.dirty)").each(function() {
      var text2 = $(this).text().replace('(', '').replace(')', '').replace(' ', '');
      if (text >= text2) {
        $(this).closest('tr').prev().prev().prev().before(this_current.closest("tr"));
      } else {
        $(this).closest('tr').after(this_current.closest("tr"));
      }
    });
    $(this).removeClass("dirty");
  });
});





  
    table cell of the 1st row
  
  
    table cell of the 2nd row
  
  
    table cell of the 3rd row
  
  
    ILIGAN (DALIPUGA)
  
  
    table cell of the 5th row
  
  
    table cell of the 6th row
  
  
    table cell of the 7th row
  
  
    ILIGAN (BB)
  
  
    table cell of the 9th row
  
  
    table cell of the 10th row
  
  
    table cell of the 11th row
  
  
    ILIGAN (BB)
  
  
    table cell of the 13th row
  
  
    table cell of the 14th row
  
  
    table cell of the 15th row
  
  
    CDO (AGUSAN)
  
  
    table cell of the 17th row
  
  
    table cell of the 18th row
  
  
    table cell of the 19th row
  
  
    ILIGAN (AA)
  
  
    table cell of the 20th row
  
  
    table cell of the 21th row
  
  
    table cell of the 22th row
  
  
    ILIGAN (JJ)

Sort a multidimensional array based on its first element

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