SortedPairs

 SortedPairs( )

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Description

This function can be used in a for loop instead of pairs. It sorts all keys alphabetically.

For sorting by specific value member, use SortedPairsByMemberValue.
For sorting by value, use SortedPairsByValue.

Arguments

table table

The table to sort

Arguments

boolean desc=false

Reverse the sorting order

Returns

function

Iterator function

Returns

table

The table being iterated over

Examples

Example

Example of usage.

for id, text in SortedPairs( { "e", "b", "d", "c", "a" } ) do
    print(id, text)
end

print( "---" )

for id, text in SortedPairs( { e = 1, b = 2, d = 3, c = 4, a = 5 } ) do
    print(id, text)
end

Output:

1 e
2 b
3 d
4 c
5 a
---
a 5
b 2
c 4
d 3
e 1