Howto Sort An Array With Objects By Property Value Length?

In javascript I have the following array with objects: var defaultSanitizer = [ {'word': 'large', 'replaceWith':'L'}, {'word': 'os', 'replaceWith':'One Size'}, {'word

Solution 1:

functionsortMultiDimensional(a,b)
{
    return ((a.word.length < b.word.length) ? -1 : ((a.word.length > b.word.length) ? 1 : 0));
}

var defaultSanitizer = [
    {"word": "large", "replaceWith":"L"},
    {"word": "os", "replaceWith":"One Size"},  
    {"word": "xlarge", "replaceWith":"XL"},
    {"word": "o/s", "replaceWith":"One Size"},
    {"word": "medium", "replaceWith":"M"}
];

defaultSanitizer.sort(sortMultiDimensional);
console.log(defaultSanitizer);

Solution 2:

You can sort the array in place by the ascending length of property propName with:

functionsortArray(array, propName) {
    array.sort(function(a, b) {
        return a[propName].length - b[propName].length;
    });
}

See the description of the Array.sort function.