alphacyberranger to Programmer [email protected] • 10 months agoI'll just sort it myselfimagemessage-square48arrow-up1936arrow-down112
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•10 months 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•10 months 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.