best tutorials on sorting arrays?

[Jake Barnes]

Can anyone point me to good articles on sorting arrays? In particular,
with a two dimensional array, sorting by the rows of the second
dimenion? Dynamically, maybe?

I've got a an array of files, with their names and dates, created by
PHP, and once the page is downloaded, I'd like people to be able to
sort it dynamically.

 

[VK]

Can anyone point me to good articles on sorting arrays? In particular,
with a two dimensional array, sorting by the rows of the second
dimenion? Dynamically, maybe?

I've got a an array of files, with their names and dates, created by
PHP, and once the page is downloaded, I'd like people to be able to
sort it dynamically.

That was already such question before, but I failed to find the link.

Anyway, JavaScript array is not a real multi-dimentional array, it's
so-called jagged array: a sigle-dimention array having other arrays as
its elements. It means that you can use sort() method right on the top
dimention:

var files = [
['foo',5678],
['bar',1234]
]

function byDate(a,b) {
return a[1] - b[1];
}

var sortedByDate = files.sort(byDate);

This example presumes that you are using milliseconds for dates. But
you can adjust it for string dates either.