I have an array of objects in an array. Each object has a date field. Here is a method I wrote to retrieve the index of the object with the newest date, works fine:
GetIndexOfLatestDate()
{
var indexOfLatestDate:number = 0;
var maxDate:number = new Date(this.objArray[0].date).getTime();
for(var nIndex:number = 1; nIndex < this.m_objArray.length; nIndex++)
{
if(new Date(this.objArray[nIndex].date).getTime() > maxDate)
{
maxDate = new Date(this.objArray[nIndex].date).getTime();
indexOFLatestDate = nIndex;
}
}
return indexOfLatestDate;
}
How can this be written (much) more succinctly?
Thanks for any help.
You can do it with a reduce, something like:
index = this.objArray.reduce((accum, value, index) => {
if(!accum){
accum = {
index,
maxDate: value.date
};
} else {
if(accum.maxDate.getTime() > value.date.getTime()){
accum = {
index,
maxDate: value.date
};
}
}
return accum;
}
}, null).index;
You can do this using built-in function like this
const array1 = [{date: '2/5/2021'}, {date: '3/11/2019'}, {date: '12/9/2022'}];
const dateArray = array1.map(({date}) => {return new Date(date)})
const maxDate = Math.max(...dateArray);
const indexMaxElem = dateArray.findIndex(dateObj => dateObj.getTime() === maxDate)
console.log(indexMaxElem)It is less efficient though, since it needs to do multiple pass through the array
let dateArr = [];
objArray.forEach(item => {
// extract the dates from the source array to form new array
dateArr.push(objArray.date.getTime();
});
// find the maximum date in this array, which will have the same index
indexOfLatest = dateArr.findIndex(Math.max(...dateArr));