I am creating a table of bones and IDs based on bone count. Obviously this is not a proper sequentially listed table. So I have a function that should reorder a table with pairs in alphabetical order.
When I print the table using table.foreach the order goes back to what it was before I reordered it.
I even "copied" the table during reordering to a NEW table and the new table is also "out of order".
This is the function I am using that I found on the web:
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function pairsByKeys(t, f)
local a = {}
for n in pairs(t) do table.insert(a, n) end
table.sort(a, f)
local i = 0 -- iterator variable
local iter = function () -- iterator function
i = i + 1
if a[i] == nil then return nil
else return a[i], t[a[i]]
end
end
return iter
end
Let me rephrase that... I know I am missing something. I understand that tables aren't necessarily in any specific order. How the heck do I create a table in a specific order... or is that not possible? Do I need to run the table sort during what ever final process that needs to be done?
In the examples I've seen a new table created from the new order maintained the order... I may be missing something though.
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