function ascendingOrder(arr) {
return arr.sort(function(a, b) {
return a - b;
});
}
ascendingOrder([1, 5, 2, 3, 4]);
I didn’t understand the above code that how the function is working with values a & b.
Can someone explain me??
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sort() by default considers values as strings and sorts them alphabetically. For example “20” will be greater than “100”, because 2 is greater than 1. That is why for sorting numbers compare function(a,b) is used.
For example if you have 2 numbers a=40 and b=100. a-b will return a negative number, that indicates 40 is less than 100. Similarly this is applied for all the elements of the array.
Very good explanation about this is given in the below link.
JavaScript Array sort() Method
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