Every now and then I come across questions on StackOverflow that require me to do a bit of thought-work. This particular question was asking to to take an array, such as ['a','b','c','d','e'], and flip it inside out, so that it becomes ['c','d','b','e','a']. I’m not a particularly mathematical person, so when I discover a difficult to discern pattern, I get excited – such was the case with the code below.

// Arrays to sort
var data = ["a","b","c","d","e"],
    info = ["a","b","c","d"];

// Sort array from inside-out ['a','b','c','d','e'] 
// Resulting in the following ['c','d','b','e','a']
function gut (arr) {
    
    // Resulting array, Counting variable, Number of items, 
    // initial Location
    var out = [], cnt, 
        num = arr.length, 
        loc = Math.floor(num/2);
    
    // Cycle through as many times as the array is long
    for (cnt = 0; cnt < num; cnt++)
        // Protecting our cnt variable
        (function () {
            // If our array has an odd number of entries
            if (num % 2) {
                // If on an odd iteration
                if (cnt % 2) {
                    // Move location forward
                    loc = loc + (+cnt); 
                } else {
                    // Move location backwards
                    loc = loc + (-cnt);  
                }
            // Our array has an even number of entries
            } else {
                // If on an odd iteration
                if (cnt % 2) {
                    // Move location backwards
                    loc = loc + (-cnt);
                } else {
                    // Move location forwards
                    loc = loc + (+cnt);
                }
            }
            // Push val at location to new array
            out.push(arr[loc]);
        })()
            
    // Return new array
    return out;
    
}

// Test with two arrays; even and odd sizes.
console.log(gut(data), gut(info));​

Which results in the following output:

["c", "d", "b", "e", "a"]
["c", "b", "d", "a"]

Perhaps you will find some use for it.