JavaScript in Practice: Getting Started/

...

/

Exercise: String Slicing

Exercise: String Slicing

Test your knowledge of the slice function.

We'll cover the following...

Sort the rows given below based on their titles. Make sure you exclude the header row.

Hint: the slice method works in the same way on arrays as on strings.

Solution

First, we get rid of the first row:

Press + to interact
const data = `
Title,Author,Publication Date,Publisher
ES6 in Practice,Zsolt Nagy,2017,Self-published
The Developer's Edge,Zsolt Nagy,2016,Self-published
Regex Quick Syntax Reference,Zsolt Nagy,2018,Apress
The Charismatic Coder,Zsolt Nagy,2018,Self-published
Deep Dive into Functional JavaScript,Zsolt Nagy,2017,PacktPub
Implementing and Testing Applications using Functional JavaScript,Zsolt Nagy,2017,PacktPub
Mastering Functional JavaScript Libraries,Zsolt Nagy,2017,PacktPub
Beginning Modern JavaScript Development with Microservices  WebRTC and React,Zsolt Nagy,2017,PacktPub
Beginning ASP.NET,Zsolt Nagy,2017,PacktPub
Become the CSS Hero of Your Office with CSS Architecture,Zsolt Nagy,2017,SitePoint
Setting Up and Kick Starting TypeScript,Zsolt Nagy,2017,SitePoint
`;
const result = data.trim().split('\n').map( row => row.split(',') );
const dataRows = result.slice( 1 );
console.log(dataRows)

We have to sort the data rows using the array sort ...