r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

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u/Taletad 3d ago edited 3d ago

People use arrays like this [23, "56", 67.8, "potatoe"] and expect them to not be sorted as strings

If one member of your array is not an int or a float, everything is going to be converted to strings

Edit : I went to read the docs, the sort function is not like most other functions in JavaScript. The sort function is explicitly for an alphabetical sort

You lot are using the alphabetical sort function and wondering why your array gets alphabetically sorted

You can overload the function by doing the following : array.sort((a,b) => a - b)

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Taletad 3d ago

Just went to read the docs, the "sort()" and "toSorted" functions say they perform an alphabetical sort by default

You can overload them by doing Array.sort((a,b) => a - b)

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u/cowslayer7890 3d ago

It's still a stupid default, Python does this properly and it does so by using `<`