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Muhammad Ali Khan
8,227 PointsHelp with .sort
Challenge task 2 of 2 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.
var saying1 = ["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog"];
var saying2 = ["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumped", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog's", "back"];
saying1.reverse();
saying2.sort(function(a,b){
var a = saying2[0].length
var b = saying2[1].length
return a-b
});
Bummer! The 'saying2' was 'back,dog's,lazy,the,over,jumped,fox,brown,quick,The' --not 'The,fox,the,over,lazy,back,quick,brown,dog's,jumped'.
1 Answer
Carla Thomas
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 16,039 Points4 days ago Dino Paskvan (Moderator) answered this question. You can find his explanation for the answer here: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/im-stuck-on-how-to-write-the-code-to-answer-this-question-sort-the-saying2-array-so-that-the-words-are-listed-in
Place the following inside the sort ( function (a, b) {
});
return a.length - b.length;