Most esteemed and splendid holy ones,

I need to parse a string of numbers and put them in an array.
The format of the string can differ as shown below.

1) Single number : 80
2) Range : 17-199
3) Multiple numbers: 18,512,21,78
4) Combination : 18,5,1790,19-66,212,213

Result shall be an array filled with the numbers sorted
in ascending order.
I have tried several methods involving split, push and
regexps. But I have not found a really clean and nice
solution.
Especially the combination part gets me into doing ugly
loops all over the place.
Note, I am not some kid trying to get you guys to do my
homework.
Actually I am not even a kid, but a pretty old dude :)

Regards

In reply to number sequence by nobot

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