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[Agent Silence]

How do you pull up the highest/lowest "Priority" from this table using table.sort?

tasks = {dig = {priority = 100}, mine = {priority = 120, timeout = 10}}

Im really confused, please help

[theoriginalbit]

As shown on the Lua-users.org Tables Tutorial you can provide a second argument to table.sort that is a comparator function where you compare the two arguments provided to it, therefore you'd do the following

table.sort( tasks, function( a, b ) return a > b end )

Edited by theoriginalbit, 17 July 2014 - 12:15 PM.
damn emoticon auto-formatting

[Agent Silence]

theoriginalbit, on 17 July 2014 - 12:15 PM, said:

As shown on the Lua-users.org Tables Tutorial you can provide a second argument to table.sort that is a comparator function where you compare the two arguments provided to it, therefore you'd do the following

table.sort( tasks, function( a, b ) return a > b end )

It helps a little, but how would It compare the priorities

[theoriginalbit]

well the values passed through in a and b are the table entries, so you simply just do a.priority and b.priority.

[Agent Silence]

theoriginalbit, on 17 July 2014 - 12:25 PM, said:

well the values passed through in a and b are the table entries, so you simply just do a.priority and b.priority.

Well that helps alot!, Thank you!

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[theoriginalbit]

Oh very nice. I look forward to seeing it complete though you might want to brush up on binary manipulation if you plan on actually saving out into the NBS format.

Edited by theoriginalbit, 17 July 2014 - 12:38 PM.