Hello Monks...

This seems like it should be easy, but I'm drawing a blank and I'm not sure what to type in Super Search to get more help.

I have an array whose elements look like this:

Item1 - 2 foo, 2 bar
Item2 - 0 foo, 1 bar
Item3 - 1 foo, 3 bar
Item4 - 1 foo, 2 bar


and I would like to sort them in descending order by bar:

Item3 - 1 foo, 3 bar
Item1 - 2 foo, 2 bar
Item4 - 1 foo, 2 bar
Item2 - 0 foo, 1 bar


I'm not certain how to approach this problem: split or regex? hash or sort()? Any hints or advice would be welcome.

In reply to Sort array according to a value in each element? by McMahon

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