Sort Array by String

Question

Right now, I have a list of streams, and I want to push streams with the string "online" to the front of the array, but I want to do this very quickly. I know I can just duplicate the array value by value and push the online values to the front, but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this. This is just some sample code but it is similar to what I have going. How can I just rearrange my array to push online toward the front? I'm open to JavaScript or jQuery answers. ``` var streams = new Array('online', 'offline', 'online', 'offline', 'online', 'offline', 'offline', 'online'); ```

Accepted Answer

```
streams.sort()
```

Would give you `["offline", "offline", "offline", "offline", "online", "online", "online", "online"]`

since f comes before n in off and online

You can use `.reverse()` to reverse the order of elements.

```
streams.sort().reverse()
```

Should be what you are looking for, you don't need to reassign the array (i.e. doing `streams = streams.sort().reverse()`) as it does the operations internally within your array.

Sort Array by String

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