Sort a group of associate arrays by one value in each array

Question

I am currently doing a golf scorecard application and I'm looking to sort each players results array by their overall score.

e.g, if I have the following arrays:

array1 = {
    name: "player1",
    overall: -3
}

array2 = {
    name: "player2",
    overall: -1
}

How can I sort them so that I can output the rank of each player depending on who got the best score while also keeping the name value?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Those are objects, not arrays. Make an actual array of such objects and sort the array using its .sort method (var players = [{name: ...}, {name: ...}];). — deceze
– deceze ♦, Commented Apr 15, 2016 at 13:03

Nina Scholz · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-15 13:41:33Z

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With a proper data structure for Arrays, you can sort them with Array#sort.

var object1 = { name: "player1", overall: -3 },
    object2 = { name: "player2", overall: -1 },
    array = [object1, object2];

array.sort(function (a, b) { return a.overall - b.overall; });

document.write('<pre>' + JSON.stringify(array, 0, 4) + '</pre>');

edited Apr 15, 2016 at 13:41

answered Apr 15, 2016 at 13:10

Nina Scholz

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3 Comments

Mark Reed Over a year ago

OP probably wants them sorted in opposite order, I'm guessing.

Nina Scholz Over a year ago

@MarkReed, "*output the rank of each player depending on who got the best score *", more negative value is good ...?

Mark Reed Over a year ago

Yup. It's golf. The lower the score, the better.

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