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JavaScript

Chad Duffey
Chad Duffey
16,531 Points
Posted by Chad Duffey
Chad Duffey
16,531 Points

Being marked as wrong...

Qn: "Sort the 'saying2' array, on about line 19, so that the words are listed in length order. The shortest first. Use the 'length' property on the strings in the sort function."

Code line: saying2.sort(function(a,b) {return (a.length < b.length) ? 1 : 0; });

Output Error message: "Bummer! The 'saying2' was 'The,quick,brown,fox,jumped,over,the,lazy,dog's,back' not 'The,fox,the,over,lazy,back,quick,brown,dog's,jumped'."

It seems like that is sorted by length?

3 Answers

Chad Duffey
Chad Duffey
16,531 Points
Chad Duffey
Chad Duffey
16,531 Points

Rob from support fixed it up for me.

saying2.sort(function(a,b) { return a.length - b.length; });

Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points
Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points

You just need to return a.length < b.length

saying2.sort(function(a,b) { return a.length < b.length; });

Chad Duffey
Chad Duffey
16,531 Points
Chad Duffey
Chad Duffey
16,531 Points

Thanks Dai.

Unfortunately that gives me the same result. (Same error message where it seems to do what is asked in the question).