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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Arrays Methods: Part 2

Posted by amo100
amo100
7,260 Points

HELP PLEASE

I don't know how to sort the array by the length of the strings. Thanks

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

here is an example from the mozilla docs:

var numbers = [4, 2, 5, 1, 3];
numbers.sort(function(a, b) {
    return a - b;
});

which sorts an array of numbers. we want to sort by the length of strings, so we will need to use .length on a and b

so it should look something like this:

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

a.length - b.length sorts it in ascending order b.length - a.length sorts it in descending order

amo100
amo100
7,260 Points

Thanks mate!