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[ 
    {   
        time: '5'
    },
    {
        time: '2'
    },
    {
        time: '3'
    }
]

Let's say I have an array of objects. I want to sort it by time, ascending. How can I do that in javascript?

Is there a generic function?

Example

var sorted_array = sortByKey(my_array, 'time', 'asc');
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marked as duplicate by Matt Ball, vstm, CodaFi, Roman C, Stuart Mar 9 '13 at 7:31

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4 Answers 4

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You can use the built in array.sort(somefunction)

var data = [ 
    {   
        time: '5'
    },
    {
        time: '2'
    },
    {
        time: '3'
    }
];

data.sort(function(a,b){
    return a.time - b.time;
});
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You can do something like this:

my_array.sort(function(a,b) {return a.time - b.time});
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up vote 1 down vote

Something like:

 jsArray = [ 
{   
    time: '5'
},
{
    time: '2'
},
{
    time: '3'
}
 ]

    jsArray.sort( function( tm1, tm2 ){
      return tm2.time - tm1.time;
    });
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var myArr = [
    {
        time: '5'
    },
    {
        time: '2'
    },
    {
        time: '3'
    }
];

myArr.sort(function (a, b) {
    return parseInt(a.time, 10) - parseInt(b.time, 10);
});
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