While (again) working on my node.js irc client, I needed to sort the array of nicks, prefixed with their respective modes, so I could list them correctly in my nickname list. This likely doesn't encompass all available modes, but more could easily be added. Hope someone else finds it useful.

Currently, I'm writing an irc client for myself in node.js, as sort of a proving ground to learning the ins and outs of it. I came to a point where I needed to parse the control codes into HTML, and here's what I came up with.