array.sort typescript code example

Example 1: how to sort numbers in typescript

var numericArray: number[] = [2, 3, 4, 1, 5, 8, 11];

var sortedArray: number[] = numericArray.sort((n1,n2) => n1 - n2);

Example 2: how to sort numbers in typescript

var stringArray: string[] = ['AB', 'Z', 'A', 'AC'];

var sortedArray: string[] = stringArray.sort((n1,n2) => {
    if (n1 > n2) {
        return 1;
    }

    if (n1 < n2) {
        return -1;
    }

    return 0;
});

Example 3: array sort js

arr = ['width', 'score', done', 'neither' ]
arr.sort() // results to ["done", "neither", "score", "width"]

arr.sort((a,b) => a.localeCompare(b)) 
// if a-b (based on their unicode values) produces a negative value, 
// a comes before b, the reverse if positive, and as is if zero

//When you sort an array with .sort(), it assumes that you are sorting strings
//. When sorting numbers, the default behavior will not sort them properly.
arr = [21, 7, 5.6, 102, 79]
arr.sort((a, b) => a - b) // results to [5.6, 7, 21, 79, 102]
// b - a will give you the reverse order of the sorted items 

//this explnation in not mine