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uh hello guys in this tutorial I we will
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be discussing about a most widely used
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Library called as low Dash low Dash is
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actually a library which actually works
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in both nodejs and you can also use it
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in the browser as well we will look at
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example on how to use low Dash Library
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what is low Dash so if you just search
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on Google low Dash it is actually a
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JavaScript utility Library which is
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veloped especially for programmers if
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you are working with arrays if you are
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working with any sort of data structure
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inside programming it can be arrays it
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can be numbers it can be strings so with
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the help of low Das Library your time
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will be saved and you no longer need to
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use complex Loops for daily task so it
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has a pre-built methods available if you
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go to their documentation for each every
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method there is a certain example given
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so we will be looking at some of the
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methods in this
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video so now to get started using low
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Dash you can just either you can include
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the CDN of low Dash by including the CDN
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right here if you want to work it in the
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browser you can even install it as a
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nodejs dependency so just search for low
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Dash and you can also see it's a widely
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used package almost 50 million downloads
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are there so it I think it's a number
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number one module which is used by every
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developer somewhere inside the
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application so it's a widely used module
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so now uh we will be looking at a simple
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example I will show you this is actually
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a simple script.js file we are using
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it let me show you if you want to
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include this in right in the browser
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itself you just need to paste the CDN of
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it so you can paste the CDN and now you
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can work inside your your app browser or
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you can use it in nodejs environment as
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well the command is really simple as I
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already told you npmi low Dash this will
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install it as a nodejs package now to
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get started I will actually show you I
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will declare an array here which will be
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numbers so let's suppose this is a
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numeric array 25 67 89 and again I have
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25 so these are actually AR I have
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declared which has five values all
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numerics and now I need to perform some
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operations on this array so you can see
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low Dash Library actually contains some
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methods which are very useful so let me
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show you the first method if you want to
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split this array into multiple pieces
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so without using low Dash you will be
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using complex for Loops for actually
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iterating through each value but using
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load Dash it actually has a built-in
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method so we can access L Dash inside
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this script by using underscore so it is
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this Library who created L Dash is
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inspired by underscore.js
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also a very good library for working
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with arrays so we access low Dash using
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underscore and then it has a various
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methods which is one such method is
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chunk so what this method does actually
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it takes the array so in this case we
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will pass this array right here as the
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first argument and the second argument
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is actually it takes uh in how many
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pieces you want to actually split this
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array I want to split it into two pieces
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so what it does guys you will see the
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output right here so 25 65 so one two
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pieces and then 8925 another two pieces
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so it has split the array it contains
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five elements 1 2 3 4 5 it has basically
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I provided this value to be two so now
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it has splitted this into two parts 25
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65 89 25 and now it only contains the
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last element so a78 I can change this to
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Let's suppose three elements and now it
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will actually create a subset which
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contains three elements per array so you
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can see that so in this way you can
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split your long array into smaller
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subsets by actually using this chunk
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method and here here you can provide any
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sort of subset you can provide the
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second method is actually the difference
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if you want to calculate the difference
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between any two arrays we have this
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difference method
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underscore do difference and right here
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you will actually provide the array
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which needs to be processed as the first
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argument and then the second argument
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will be the
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actual second array that needs to be
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differentiated so let's suppose if I
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provide a value such as 20 5 and 50 so
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what will be the output so just see what
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is the
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output so you will see that the output
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is shown right here 25 67 89 25
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78 so this is actually the difference
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method for this we can actually have
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a string array which contains some
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country names let's
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suppose New Zealand Australia and we
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have
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India and then South
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Africa so now we have this teams array I
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can pass this as a first argument and
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then I
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provide the second argument to be a
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string let's suppose I provide uh a
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different value which is not present
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inside I provide England as the first so
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what it will does it will actually
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return the full array because England is
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not present inside this team's array but
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if I Pro provide here let's
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suppose New Zealand and Australia which
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is already present in the input array so
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what will be the output just see India
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and South Africa because New Zealand and
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Australia are already present in this
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teams array so now they will be
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subtracted or they will be removed from
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the original array and now this is
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actually the difference it calculated
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India and South Africa same goes with
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the number array as well if you also
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take the same example with car as well
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let's suppose I replace it here with
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nums and now I provide here a value
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which is press already present which is
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25 so now if you
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see this 25 ENT
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three will be
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removed I think uh you need
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to uh
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25 okay this difference method guys only
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works with the string array it doesn't
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work with the number array
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because in string array we need to
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actually compare the strings which are
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already present inside this array so we
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actually remove this so you can see that
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these two country names are already
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present so we the output is India and
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South Africa so you will see that the
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next method comes is the intersection
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intersection Union you have studied in
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maths so intersection Al basically
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Returns the common elements so
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intersection we provide the teams array
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similarly we are providing this teams
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array and then we provide the array that
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needs to be
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processed so let's suppose I provide
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again New Zealand and Australia as my
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input so what it will does it will
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calculate the intersection between the
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steams array and this is actually the
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array that we provided so you can see
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New Zealand and Australia are present in
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both the arrays so this will actually be
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the output new New Zealand and Australia
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this is actually calculated the
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intersection or both the teams are
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present in both the areas so that's why
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it returned to it similarly we also have
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the union method as well Union so Union
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as you all know it actually combines or
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concatenates all the values so let's
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suppose I provide here England like what
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will be the output New Zealand Australia
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India South Africa and England because
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it will combine or concatenate both the
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entries of both the arrays into a single
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array so now it contains this output
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array which contains all these entries
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because it calculated the
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union but if I provide also here
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newsand you will see that now the output
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will not contain duplicate entries New
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Zealand will only be contained once
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because it basically it doesn't repeat
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because it is already present in the
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original array so this is actually meant
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by Union
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it doesn't concat it does concatenate
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but it doesn't duplicate entries so this
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was the union method
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then we also have some methods for
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actually filtering out or searching as
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well one such method is let's suppose if
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you want to get the head
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value so what it will does it will
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return the first value in the array so
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head represents it will actually return
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the zeroth value on the array it will
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return the first element so head is
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meant by that and similarly we have also
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the tail method as well tail method
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actually removes the first element from
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the array and Returns the output array
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now you can see New Zealand is removed
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because it was the first element in the
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array rest of the array is returned to
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us as the output so if you want to
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remove the first element from the array
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this is really useful guys in blow Dash
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you have pre-built methods available you
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don't need to actually run these complex
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for Loops you can actually make use of
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this tail method and actually remove the
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first element from the array so it's
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really simple and you can just see the
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power of all these methods and then we
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also have the join method as well join
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method is similar to Union but there is
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a slight
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difference if you see the join method
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what it does uh it actually joins all
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these elements which are present in this
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array
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with the string so now the output if you
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want to see this output let me show you
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in the browser because it will not show
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it right inside this so if I open
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this and show you in the console it will
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look something like this so K will be
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inserted in all the array
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values so it will look something like
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this New Zealand can Australia can India
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can South Africa so you will see cane
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will be inserted in all the entries
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which is present in this array and it
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will actually concatenate a simple
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string so if you want to concatenate
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everything everything which is available
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inside this array into a single string
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then we will use the join
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method and now if you want to remove
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something from the array we also have a
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drop method as well which actually takes
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uh the nums array let me take a numeric
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array and if I want to remove the first
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element
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sorry we need to end this so we actually
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takes the nums array so what it will
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does it will remove the first element
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from the array you will see 25 will be
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removed so because we have
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actually passed this one entry so one
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simply means that remove the first
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element of the array so similar we can
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pass two here it will actually remove
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all the elements starting from 1 and two
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you can see that the power of this
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method so it actually removed the first
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two elements if you want to remove the
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first three elements it will be
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returning 25 comma 78 so it has removed
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25 67 89 it has removed the first three
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elements from the array and it has
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returned it this is actually the drop
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method and then we also have the finding
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method if you want to search something
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from this array we also have this find
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index method and here you pass your
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actual array as first argument we are
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passing the teams array and then we have
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this function which you can run in the
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second argument and right here you can
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have any sort of condition that you want
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to put you can say return the
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team which which is equal
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to New Zealand so here we put a
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condition guys so what will be the
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output if you
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see so it is saying that it is returning
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the index of the team it is returning
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the index zero here if you see this is
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actually the output will be returned
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because New Zealand is present at the
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zeroth index so it is the first element
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in the array so that's why it is
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returning zero let's suppose if I
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replace it with Australia so now I'm
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just interested to find out the team
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which is starting from Australia so now
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it is the second element in the array so
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it is returning the index one right here
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so in this way this is actually the find
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index method it actually Returns the
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index number of the actual element which
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is present in the array so we can
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actually have South Africa as well right
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here now the index number will be three
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you can see that so three will be
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returned so this is actually the finding
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method which is present in low Dash
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which actually makes it very much easy
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to actually find elements in the array
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without having to actually make use of
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for loops and all and then similarly we
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also have a method to actually clone a
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original array so let's suppose if you
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want to make a copy of your original
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array let's suppose if you want to
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create a copy of this array there is a
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clone method available so you just need
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to write
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here underscore do clone and then you
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provide the teams array it will actually
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create this clone array it will create a
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copy of this teams array and store it
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you can store it in a variable as well
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so now it has actually created a clone
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similarly so this is actually clone
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method and uh also we also have another
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method called as uh
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pull so pull method guys
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actually uh removes the
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element removes multiple elements so if
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you want to remove multiple elements
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from the array let's suppose I want to
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remove from the teams array so here you
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can provide multiple elements if you
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want to remove New Zealand and also
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Australia at the same time you can
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provide as many arguments as you want so
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now it will actually create a new array
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and now New Zealand and Australia will
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be removed from the array now the output
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you can see India and South Africa so
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this is actually the output India and
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South Africa so the thing about pull
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method guys it actually mutates the
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original array it actually modifies the
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original array so if you want to access
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now the teams array it will look
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something like this India and South fre
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so it actually modifies the original
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array so if you don't want to modify the
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original array if you just want to
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create a copy of this without having to
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modify the original array there is a
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second method which does the same thing
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but it actually doesn't modify the
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array that method is uh I think is uh
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without so now if you can actually say
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without it does the same thing you can
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see India and South Africa will be
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returned New Zealand Australia will be
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removed but now if you access the teams
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array the original array is not modified
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it actually created a new array which
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contains uh doesn't contain New Zealand
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and Australia but if you do use this
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method called as pull but it will modify
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the original array so this is actually
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the difference between pull and without
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so I showed you both the
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methods so depending upon on which one
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you want to use you can use it and then
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we also have some more methods which
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actually want to if you want to count
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something so there is also a count
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method as well count by so this method
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actually takes the array and it actually
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tells you how many times a certain
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element is repeated so you can see it
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actually tells us inside this numeric
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array 25 is repeated twice 67 is
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repeated once say 78 1 89 1 so it
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exactly tells you how many times a
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certain element is repeated in this
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array so if I enter let's suppose 78
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twice so it will also say 78 is also
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repeated twice so this is actually meant
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by count by it actually tells you how
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many times a certain element is repeated
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and similarly we also have a for each
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method as well in low Das if you want
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to Loop through elements
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there is this call back function you can
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do this and you can console log num it
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will print out all the elements which
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are present 25 67 89 25
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7878 this is very simple for each Loop
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also available in low Dash if you want
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to iterate through all the elements of a
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particular array you can use a for each
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loop as
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well and uh then guys I will show you a
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more complex example let's suppose if
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you have a array
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array of
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objects each object contains two
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properties the name
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property and let's suppose a age
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property as well and
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a
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country so this is a one object I can
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repeat this
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so I can change the name
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here age
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35 can say
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here
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40 say here USA and then I can say here
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gy this one is 20 and I can say here
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UK so we have an array of op objects and
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users object now if you want to apply
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some methods which is present very handy
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methods one such method is order by
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order by guys what it does it actually
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takes the array for example as a first
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argument you provide the users array and
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then you can provide some properties
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which are available in this object we
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can access the name property Age Country
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so any property we can access let's
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suppose I want the results to be ordered
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by name property and then we need to
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access it in the descending order order
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so we'll say descending order so if you
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want to run this you need to run it in
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the browser so what I will do I will
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simply show it in the script
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file so what it will does it will if you
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show it so it actually Returns
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the uh alphabets in a descending order
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you can see k j j k so because K is
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greater than J that's why it is the
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names have been sorted in a descending
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way Kane is getting first and then John
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then Jim then Ali so you can do it for
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anyone uh you can also order it by age
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as well so whichever user has basically
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has a greater age will come first so age
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40 then age 35 27 20 so you can see all
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these sorting methods are already built
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in low Dash if you want to sort this
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using a descending order ascending order
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as well you can even have a ascending
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order as well so now the ages will come
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in a ascending order so 20 27 35 40 so
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if you want to sort element sort persons
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with different ages different names so
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here you can do this using this order by
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Method so this is uh all ladash methods
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guys one such method also exist which is
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every method so in every method you
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actually pass the users object and then
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we have
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the call back function so here we only
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need to access the users which whose age
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is greater than 30 so what it will does
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it will actually return all the users
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whose age is greater than 30 so in this
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case if you see the John has age 35 that
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that is why it will be returned and Kan
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has 40 h so I can now show you in this
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example so now if you see console log
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for every user user we need to say here
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user age 30 it is actually returning
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false here as an output but if I show
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you in the
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browser so it returns a Boolean value
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guys for every so if the actual
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condition evaluates to true then it
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returns true but here in this array all
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the ages are not greater than 30 some
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ages are also smaller than 30 so if I
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make all the ages greater than 30 you
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will see this condition will evaluate to
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True let's suppose if here also if I
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make this to 40 and this 240 as well now
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this returns true here because all the
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elements are actually getting this
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condition to be true so all the persons
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are greater than 30 H that's why this
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condition evalues to true now this is
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returning trueu so this is actually a
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very handy method you can use every
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method you can apply this on a variety
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of objects arrays and you can check for
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a certain property that if if it
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evaluates to true or not and uh
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similarly we have a filter method as
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well which actually filter out a certain
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user so let's suppose if you want to
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filter user based upon any condition we
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have the filter method we pass the users
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as a first argument and this this
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actually will be a call back function
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and here we only need to return the
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users which actually matches some kind
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of criteria that is if the age is
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greater than if age is greater than 30
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so let's suppose if I say 20 here make
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it
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20 and also make it 20 as well so now
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only two users are there whose age is
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greater than 30 if I now need to console
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log the filtered users do length
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now it comes out to be two because there
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are only two users whose age is greater
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than 30 if I want to print this you will
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see John and uh Kane so whose ages
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greater than 30 so in this way guys you
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can apply these very easily without
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having to use any sort of logic that's
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why low Dash is used widely in nodejs
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and JavaScript because it eliminates
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the very usage of actually having
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pre-built methods are there and you
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don't need to write Logic on your own so
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these methods makes it very easy to
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actually
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handle uh arrays so these are some of
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the methods guys you can read the
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documentation it actually contains a lot
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of methods you can see the for each
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method there is an certain example given
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to you so the documentation is really
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