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Tammy Herrera
4,070 PointsSort 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.
saying2 = ["The", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumped", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog's", "back"];
saying2.sort(function (a, b){ return saying2.length })
I'm pretty lost with this question. Not sure how to solve it? Can someone please assist me?
1 Answer

lordcozycat
11,940 PointsYour function needs to sort the array. Use this
saying2.sort(function(a, b) {
return a.length - b.length;
});
You can switch a.length and b.length to return the array longest to shortest as well :)
Thomas Ireland
Courses Plus Student 8,216 PointsThomas Ireland
Courses Plus Student 8,216 PointsThis one had me stumped for ages too and I realised I was adding parentheses onto the
.length
property.Thanks, Bryan H .
Michael Cleyn
1,755 PointsMichael Cleyn
1,755 PointsCan you explain what a.length - b.length is doing?