JavaScript anagram comparison

Question

I\'m trying to compare two strings to see if they are anagrams.

My problem is that I\'m only comparing the first letter in each string. For example, \"Mary\" and \"

Answer 1

Instead of comparing letter by letter, after sorting you can join the arrays to strings again, and let the browser do the comparison:

function compare (a, b) {
    var y = a.split("").sort().join(""),
        z = b.split("").sort().join("");
    console.log(z === y
        ? a + " and " + b + " are anagrams!"
        : a + " and " + b + " are not anagrams."
    );
}