saying2 sort by length

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Sort saying array on line 19, so the words are listed in length order. Shortest first. Use the 'Length' property on the strings in the sort function.

var saying2 = ["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumped", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog's", "back"];

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

I have tried and had not gotten the correct result. I'm at a loss with this question. Can you assist me with the answer? thnx!

Hi Tammy,

The example given in the video was to sort numbers.

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

So 2 numbers from the array are passed in for a and b and by subtracting them we're able to return either a positive, negative, or zero value. Depending on how a and b relate to each other.

You want to do something similar for the array of strings in this problem. Two strings from the array will be passed in for a and b. However, we can't subtract strings. We're trying to sort by string length so we should subtract their lengths.

return a.length - b.length;