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SebNozzi: Added example for sorting by property

2022-02-01T10:42:01Z

Added example for sorting by property

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71.226.33.30: Created page with "sort Sorts a list in place. With null or no argument, this sorts the list elements by their own values. See also: shuffle === Arguments === {| class="wikitabl..."

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Created page with "<c>sort</c> Sorts a list in place. With null or no argument, this sorts the list elements by their own values. See also: shuffle === Arguments === {| class="wikitabl..."

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<c>sort</c> Sorts a list in place. With null or no argument, this sorts the list elements by their own values.

See also: [[shuffle]]

=== Arguments ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Parameter Name !! Default Value !! Meaning
|-
| ''self'' || list || list to sort
|-
| ''byKey'' || optional || if given, sort each element by indexing with this key.
|}

=== Usage Notes ===
With the byKey argument, each
element is indexed by that argument, and the elements are sorted
by the result. (This only works if the list elements are maps, or
they are lists and byKey is an integer index.)

== Example ==

<ms>a = [5,3,4,1,2]; a.sort // results in a == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]</ms>

[[Category:Intrinsic Functions]]
[[Category:List Methods]]

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 people = [john, ursula, anna]
-people.sort("age")    // results in people == [ursula, john, anna]
+people.sort "age"    // results in people == [ursula, john, anna]
-people.sort("name")   // results in people == [anna, john, ursula]
+people.sort "name"   // results in people == [anna, john, ursula]
 </ms>
 [[Category:Intrinsic Functions]]
 [[Category:List Methods]]

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−	<c>sort</c> ~~Sorts~~ a list in place. With null or no argument, this sorts the list elements by their own values.	+	<c>sort</c> sorts a list in place. With null or no argument, this sorts the list elements by their own values.

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 == Example ==
-<ms>a = [5,3,4,1,2]; a.sort	// results in a == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]</ms>
+Sorting numeric list in-place:
 [[Category:Intrinsic Functions]]
 [[Category:List Methods]]