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Sort JavaScript output

This code works great, thanks to Slick812. But I need the output sorted by the number of times the duplicate string is found, in descending order.

Also prefer to list just the first 10 matches but that is not as important as the sort.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  
  <style type='text/css'>
		
	}
  body,td,th {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	color: #000000;
}
body {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>




<script>
var tx1 = "Bobob is attempting-to find him the reason, Janet is attempting. to understand Bobob and to! reason with him a!s Bobob in reason or reason.";

function getDups(txt) { // Only has duplicates
// I had to remove most common punctuation
// BUT not every one, so BeWare if the text has other punctuation
txt=txt.replace(/,/g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/\./g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/\?/g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/!/g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/\"/g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/\'/g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/\-/g," ");
txt=txt.replace(/;/g,"");
txt=txt.replace(/:/g," ");

wordary = txt.split(' ');
wordary = wordary.sort();

var dNum = 1;
var dups = {};
for (var i=0; i < wordary.length-2; i++) {
if ( wordary[i].length > 4 
    && wordary[i+1].length > 4 
    && wordary[i+1] == wordary[i]) {
	++dNum;
	dups[wordary[i]] = dNum;
	} else dNum = 1;
}

txt = "";
var key = "";
for (key in dups) {
    txt+= key +" "+dups[key]+"<br />";
    }
return txt;
}


function showUm(text) {
text = getDups(text);
document.getElementById("de").innerHTML = text;
}

</script> 


<button onClick="showUm(tx1)"> Get Duplicates </button>
<p id="de"> </p> 

  
</body>
</html>

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Qsorb

ASKER

leakim971 was first so he get's half the points because Slick812 gave me both, he also set the amount of the results shown to ten, so I'm awarding points equally.

Thanks guys for the quick and excellent work and no confusion.

leakim971

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Equally?

Qsorb

ASKER

Sorry, that should have been equally. Not sure what happened. How do I ask the moderator or whomever controls the points to divvy them equally?

leakim971

no, of course :))