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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Arrays Methods: Part 2

Posted by Tyler Black
Tyler Black
4,552 Points

So lost on the 2nd part of this question...

"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." It is returning my first code input (the reversal) as invalid and, of course, this is not correct. Can anyone help? I have been going through every possible variation of what I think could be the right answer, but I just can't get it!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title> JavaScript Foundations: Arrays</title>
    <style>
      html {
        background: #FAFAFA;
        font-family: sans-serif;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Arrays: Methods Part 1</h2>
    <script>
      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(.length);
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Cian Mac Mahon
Cian Mac Mahon
17,657 Points
Cian Mac Mahon
Cian Mac Mahon
17,657 Points

Hi Tyler!

Double check how the sort() method is used - You can't just give it a property, you need to build a function which returns a value.

Take another look at the video, from about 2 minutes 15 seconds in.

Because you are inputting code which is invalid (it throws an error at runtime due to not seeing what it expects in the sort()'s comparator function) for the second part of the quiz, everything is becoming jumbled, so the first question appears to be broken.