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[GamerNebulae]

Hello everyone!

My question is so simple that the most of you ask why I am asking this, but I am trying to alphabetically sort a table so it is easier searching for something. I am trying to sort the first index on alphabetical order. This is an example of what the table looks like:

data[aspect][1] = 64 --#aspect is a string, the second number indicates how many jars are there and the value is how much of an aspect is in a jar

I tried table.sort, but it is not working. Anyone have ideas?

Edited by GamerNebulae, 16 June 2014 - 10:33 AM.

[theoriginalbit]

EDIT: take a look at this link to also see the code that Bomb Bloke was talking about.

Edited by theoriginalbit, 15 June 2014 - 12:42 PM.
pardon me, making simple mistakes, I must be in need of sleep

[Bomb Bloke]

You can't really sort the table as it is anyway - keys in the form of strings aren't intended to be retrieved in any sort of order. The strings themselves end up defining the order, and not in a manner that's easily predictable.

I'd take all the key names and shove them in a numerically indexed table, then table.sort() that. Funnily enough, that's what the script linked from here was crashing on (if only because Dire's code was getting unexpected results from a certain peripheral call).

[GamerNebulae]

Thanks for the good responses everybody! It made me think of how I need to sort the table and I came up with a solution that is quite obvious, but still genius. This is a snippet of what I made on codepad:

Spoiler

data = {}
toBeSorted = {}

data["Aer"] = {}
data["Aer"][1] = 33
data["Aer"][2] = 12
data["Aer"][3] = 63

data["Herba"] = {}
data["Herba"][1] = 44
data["Herba"][2] = 42
data["Herba"][3] = 33

data["Fabrico"] = {}
data["Fabrico"][1] = 21
data["Fabrico"][2] = 12
data["Fabrico"][3] = 22

data["Aqua"] = {}
data["Aqua"][1] = 22
data["Aqua"][2] = 44
data["Aqua"][3] = 55

for k,v in pairs(data) do
  toBeSorted[#toBeSorted + 1] = k
end

table.sort(toBeSorted)

for k,v in pairs(toBeSorted) do
  print(k..": "..v)
end

--#Output
--# 1: Aer
--# 2: Aqua
--# 3: Fabrico
--# 4: Herba

[Bomb Bloke]

By the by, you could cut down that initial table declaration somewhat:

data ={["Aer"] = {33,12,63}, ["Herba"] = {44,42,33}, ["Fabrico"] = {21,12,22}, ["Aqua"] = {22,44,55}}

[GamerNebulae]

Bomb Bloke, on 16 June 2014 - 10:39 AM, said:

-snip-

The making of that table is automated, so it doesn't matter.

Edited by GamerNebulae, 16 June 2014 - 11:17 AM.