This can be achieved by passing a supporting function as an argument to the Array.sort
method call.
Something like this:
function Comparator(a, b) {
if (a[1] < b[1]) return -1;
if (a[1] > b[1]) return 1;
return 0;
}
var myArray = [
[1, 'alfred', '...'],
[23, 'berta', '...'],
[2, 'zimmermann', '...'],
[4, 'albert', '...'],
];
myArray = myArray.sort(Comparator);
console.log(myArray);