Name
Array.sort( ) Method — sort the elements of an array
Availability
Flash 5
Synopsis
array.sort( ) array.sort(compareFunction)
Arguments
- compareFunction
A function that dictates how to sort
array.
Description
When invoked without any arguments, the sort( )
method temporarily converts the elements of
array to strings and orders the elements
according to the code points of those strings (approximately
alphabetical order). Alphabetic comparisons and code points are
described in “Character order and alphabetic comparisons”
in Chapter 4.
When invoked with a compareFunction
argument, sort( ) reorders the elements of
array according to the return value of
compareFunction, which is a user-defined
function that dictates how to arrange any two values in the array.
Your user-defined compareFunction should
be designed to accept two array elements as arguments. It should
return a negative number if the first element should come before the
second element; it should return a positive number if the first
element should come after the second element; and it should return a
if the elements should not be reordered. If additional elements are
added to the array after it has been sorted, they are
not added in sorted order. You must resort the
array to reorder any newly added elements. Note that numbers are
sorted according to their Latin 1 code points by default. Chapter 11
explains how to sort numbers by their numeric values.
Example
The following example sorts an array of movie clips according to their horizontal ...
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