alphacyberranger to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 1 year agoI'll just sort it myselfsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1927
arrow-up1927imageI'll just sort it myselfsh.itjust.worksalphacyberranger to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 1 year agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-square@KiofKi@feddit.delinkfedilink15•1 year ago"By default, the sort() function sorts values as strings. This works well for strings (“Apple” comes before “Banana”). However, if numbers are sorted as strings, “25” is bigger than “100”, because “2” is bigger than “1”. Because of this, the sort() method will produce incorrect result when sorting numbers." https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_array_sort.asp
minus-square@floofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoIt also produces incorrect results in many languages other than English. You can pass it a compare function that uses localeCompare or Intl.Collator to get a correct alphabetical sort.
"By default, the sort() function sorts values as strings.
This works well for strings (“Apple” comes before “Banana”).
However, if numbers are sorted as strings, “25” is bigger than “100”, because “2” is bigger than “1”.
Because of this, the sort() method will produce incorrect result when sorting numbers."
https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_array_sort.asp
It also produces incorrect results in many languages other than English. You can pass it a compare function that uses localeCompare or Intl.Collator to get a correct alphabetical sort.