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jrhager84's avatar
jrhager84
Reel Rookie
2 years ago

My array is not sorting. How do I do it?

I have an array of associative arrays, and I want to sort the main array by the children array's 'displayOrder' property. I've looked at various solutions online, and none of them are doing what I want. I will give you an example:

{
  'displayOrder': 4,

  'title': 'Title Four'

  'videos': AssociativeArray<>...

},

{

  'displayOrder': 2,

  'title': 'Title Two',

  'videos': AssociativeArray<>...

}

 

I want to have the array be:

{

  'displayOrder': 2

  ...

},

{

  'displayOrder': 4

  ...

}

 

Basically, I'm getting arrays where the order is not right, and I need to 'sort' them, but the .sort() and sortBy() methods don't work the way I want, and no matter which type of sort algorithm or loop I do, it doesn't seem to do what I want to do (as would be in a traditional programming language). I'm sure it's something I'm doing, and I would appreciate some direction. Thanks!

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  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    2 years ago

    Is that really your code because it's full of syntax errors.  BS doesn't use single quotes for strings and you don't quote AA members.  It should be:

    x = [{displayOrder:4,title:"Title Four"}},{displayOrder:2,title:"Title Two"}]
x.sortBy("displayOrder")

     

    P.S. - code is much easier to read if you use code tags.

    • jrhager84's avatar
      jrhager84
      Reel Rookie
      2 years ago

      No - it's not. I figured it was obvious it was pseudo code. I just didn't see the code tag so it made it difficult to type. I'll be sure to use the tags in the future.

       

      It's correct and not throwing errors. I was able to diagnose that the fields *are* sorting if I print the array after the sort, but if some of the requests take a while it won't preserve order.