Out of curiosity, what rules apply here exactly?
alert([-Infinity, -1, Infinity, 0, 1].sort());
Outputs: -1, -Infinity, 0, 1, Infinity
JSFiddle: /
How is it that -Infinity gets sorted between -1 and 0?
Out of curiosity, what rules apply here exactly?
alert([-Infinity, -1, Infinity, 0, 1].sort());
Outputs: -1, -Infinity, 0, 1, Infinity
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle/8tVGb/
How is it that -Infinity gets sorted between -1 and 0?
Share Improve this question edited Jul 31, 2013 at 1:43 Maciej A. Czyzewski 1,5291 gold badge13 silver badges24 bronze badges asked Jul 31, 2013 at 1:39 GOTO 0GOTO 0 48.1k25 gold badges139 silver badges164 bronze badges 01 Answer
Reset to default 13If you don't use a custom pare function, sort always converts the items to strings and orders them lexicographically. Use
….sort(function(a,b){ return a-b; })
See also How to sort an array of integers correctly