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Can any one help me in sorting a 2 Dimensional Array

Which will have the data in the following format

[2, All are fine]
[4, All is Well]
[1, Welcome Code]
[9, Javascript]

After sorting it should look like 

[2, All are fine]
[4, All is Well]
[9, Javascript]
[1, Welcome Code]

Main thing that i am focussing is to sort based on Text not on the ID

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possible duplicate of sort outer array based on values in inner array, javascript – Felix Kling Jun 27 '11 at 8:38

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ary.sort(function(a, b) { return (a[1] < b[1] ? -1 : (a[1] > b[1] ? 1 : 0)); });

See: http://jsfiddle.net/tdBWh/ for this example, and MDC for documentation.

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You can use this kind of code :

function sortMultiDimensional(a,b)
{
    // for instance, this will sort the array using the second element    
    return ((a[1] < b[1]) ? -1 : ((a[1] > b[1]) ? 1 : 0));
}

and then use the sort method :

myArray.sort(sortMultiDimensional);

Regards,

Max

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what is a and b parameters? – gmhk Jun 27 '11 at 8:42
@harigm: sorry, i needed to complete my answer (and i did) – JMax Jun 27 '11 at 8:44
thanks so much it worked – gmhk Jun 27 '11 at 8:54

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