Algorithm of JavaScript “sort()” Function

Question

Recently when I was working with JavaScript \"sort()\" function, I found in one of the tutorials that this function does not sort the numbers properly. Instead to sort numbe

Answer 1

You can delegate the sorting to your own sort function:

function sortnum(a,b) {
 return parseInt(a,10)-parseInt(b,10);
}
var n = ["10", "5", "40", "25", "100", "1"];
alert(n.sort(sortnum)); //=>["1", "5", "10", "25", "40", "100"]