Sort variables from highest to lowest

Question

I'm trying to sort a group variables by their value (highest to lowest). As you can see I'm a massive beginner with javascript. I don't even think it's possible to group variables inside a variable?! Any help would be much appreciated! :D

<script>

var score = [jobA , jobB , jobC , jobD , jobE , jobG , jobI , jobK , jobL , jobJ , jobH, jobF, jobM]; document.getElementById("result-1").innerHTML = score;

$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#myresults").hide();
    $("#joblinks").hide();
});

    function changeText(){
   if ((personalSkillsCheckboxCount >= 3)  && (workSkillsCheckboxCount >= 3)) {
      document.getElementById("result-1").innerHTML = ( ("Allied Health Assistant " + jobA) + ("Physical Activity Co-ordinator /recreation officer " + jobB) + ("Health Promotion Officer " + jobC) + ("Exercise Physiologist " + jobD) + ("Sports Development Co-ordinator " + jobE) + ("Wellbeing presenters " + jobF) + ("Research/academia (honours pathway) " + jobG) + ("Sport administrator " + jobH) + ("Sport marketer / event manager  " + jobI) + ("Sport facility operations manager " + jobJ) + ("Project Manager " + jobK) + ("Project Officer " + jobL) + ("Recreation Officer in a Womens Prison " + jobM) );

      document.getElementById("instructions").innerHTML = ("The jobs with the highest score relate to the job best suited to you based on your career interests, personal attributes and work-related skills. Which job did you score highest in? Now you can explore these jobs in more detail by clicking on the job links below.");

      score.sort(function(a, b){return b-a});
      document.getElementById("result-1").innerHTML = score;

      $("#workskills").slideUp();
      $("#personalskills").slideUp();
      $("#myresults").show();
      $("#joblinks").slideDown();
      ("result-1").sort(function(a, b){return b-a});
      document.getElementById("result-1").innerHTML = ("result-1");
        }
      }


  }
    else {
        alert("Please check at least 3 skills in each column")
 }

} </script>

Answer 1 · 2016-06-20T08:21:52Z

June 20, 2016 8:21am

maybe try http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_sort.asp . If your objects are a little complicated, then you might been to rewrite the comparison function to consume your object's structure. An example i wrote recently, is schools.sort(function(a, b){return a.avg-b.avg }); It's basically the same as a normal numeric sort, but knows about the objects it's using (particularly that they have an avg attribute).

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