{"id":1448,"date":"2014-05-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/05\/09\/powertip-sort-a-powershell-array\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-sort-a-powershell-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-sort-a-powershell-array\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Sort a PowerShell Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to easily sort an array of numbers by using Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily sort an array of numbers stored in a variable?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Sort<\/b>&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;<b>[array]<\/b>&nbsp;.NET Framework class:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$a = 1,5,3,8,2,12<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">[array]::sort($a)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily sort an array of numbers by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily sort an array of numbers stored in a variable? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Sort&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;[array]&nbsp;.NET Framework class: $a = 1,5,3,8,2,12 [array]::sort($a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily sort an array of numbers by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily sort an array of numbers stored in a variable? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Sort&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;[array]&nbsp;.NET Framework class: $a = 1,5,3,8,2,12 [array]::sort($a)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}