How to sort serialized JS array?

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I have such output from form with $("form").serializeArray():

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Everything that is before : is name, after : is value How to convert it to sorted array, like:

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with javascript / jQuery?

Answer 1

If you want to just normalize your indexes, then you could create new array and then do something like

const newArray = [];
serializedArray.forEach((item) => newArray.push(item));
return newArray;

Or, another way is to just pass it through an "always true" filter, like:

serializedArray.filter(()=>true);

Answer 2

It's pretty simple but it depends on how you want to use this data you feel? But I suppose you could run an array length and sort your checks some how.

function MyHugeFunction (data) {
  console.log(`Size: ${data.length}`);
  console.log(`First Arg: ${data[0]}`);
  console.log(`Entire Argument Set: ${data}`);
};

MyHugeFunction(["test","hello","123"]);

Answer 3

It's not obvious without the context but I think it is an exercise on spread operator.

In this case, your function would be something like

function(...args) {
  args.forEach((val) => console.log(val))
}

or

function(...args) {
  console.log(...args)
}

The "...args" is used to get all the arguments of your function in a "args array" and the forEach function applied to this array does the trick