Sort two arrays the same way

Question

For example, if I have these arrays:

var name = [\"Bob\",\"Tom\",\"Larry\"];
var age =  [\"10\", \"20\", \"30\"];

And I use name.sort

Answer 1

You are trying to sort 2 independet arrays by only calling sort() on one of them.

One way of achieving this would be writing your own sorting methd which would take care of this, meaning when it swaps 2 elements in-place in the "original" array, it should swap 2 elements in-place in the "attribute" array.

Here is a pseudocode on how you might try it.

function mySort(originals, attributes) {
    // Start of your sorting code here
        swap(originals, i, j);
        swap(attributes, i, j);
    // Rest of your sorting code here
}