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    sort()

    sort() method is used to sort the elements of an array in ascending or descending order. The elements of array sort as strings (in alphabetic and ascending order), by default.

    Example:

    var names=[garry, john, anny, harry];
    names.sort();
    

    This does not work for the numeric values as the method treats the numeric values as strings. To overcome this, there is a compareFunction.

    Syntax for compareFunction

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

    This function returns a value (negative , positive or zero depending on arguments). Then, sort() method sorts the elements of the array using returned value.

    Example:

    var num = [50, 10, 16, 75, 21, 1];
    num.sort(function(a, b){return b-a});
    

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