I have a json array of objects that look like this: {id:'the id', name:'the name'}; and I need to loop over the array and group each object alphabetically by it's name attribute. Is there a way to do this without using a switch / if statement with every letter in it?
What I don't want to do is something like this:
if(data[i].name..slice(0, 1) == 'a') {
...
}
It's a large array, with almost a 1,000 objects in it. My goal is eventually append them to a dive so it looks something like this:
you can loop throught your collections like this:
var groupedCollection = {};
for(...){//loop throug collection
var firstLetter = data[i].charAt(0);
if(groupedCollection[firstLetter] == undefined){
groupedCollection[firstLetter] = [];
}
groupedCollection[firstLetter].push(data[i]);
}
//groupedCollection now contait data in the form of {a: [], b:[], etc...}