Adobe Flex - Sorting an ArrayColleciton by Date

Adobe Flex - Sorting an ArrayColleciton by Date

/**

* @params data:Array

* @return dataCollection:Array

**/

private function orderByPeriod(data:Array):Array

{

var dataCollection:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(data);//Convert Array to ArrayCollection to perform sort function

var dataSortField:SortField = new SortField();

dataSortField.name = "period"; //Assign the sort field to the field that holds the date string

var numericDataSort:Sort = new Sort();

numericDataSort.fields = [dataSortField];

dataCollection.sort = numericDataSort;

dataCollection.refresh();

return dataCollection.toArray();

}