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Javascript array sort with Reducer

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This has been the most tricky/confusing javascript interview question for starters specially 😀

And this was my answer once which made interviewer shy: how the hell candidate will know if interviewer has speech recognition issue..

Btw, instead forloop, you can use "reducer" like this ⤵️

//


let reducer = (acm, value) => {
  const nextIndex = acm.findIndex(i => value < i );
  const index = nextIndex > -1 ? nextIndex : acm.length;
  acm.splice(index, 0, value);
  return acm;
}
// execution
Ley arr = [
arr.reduce(reducer, []) will produce [1,2,3,4]
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Let me know how you answered this kind of interviews

Thanks!

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Tiago Dias •

What??

[6,3,-1,2].sort() // [ -1, 2, 3, 6 ]
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Which is completely fine. I think you missed the point here...

Array.prototype.sort accepts a callback as a custom sorter.

What a convoluted piece of "code". Awful use case to make your point across.

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Alfredo Salzillo •

Please ad the javascript tag to the code block.

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D\sTro •

thanks

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Oscar Rodriguez Gimeno •

They asked me how to center a div. I told them 'margin 0 auto' although I don't know if it works in iexplorer

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D\sTro •

😀👌

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