Re: sorting non-numeric keys table with custom function ?

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---- On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:37:54 -0800 Klaus Ripke <paul-lua@malete.org> wrote ---- 

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:14:51PM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote: 
> > What do you expect from a sorted table with string keys? 
> > That pairs will list the entries in order? 
> > That is not possible: a table is a bag of pairs, not ordered in any way. 
>  
> unfortunately PHP arrays "work" that way, sort of, 
> and their asort, arsort, ksort etc hell is an ugly mess *shudder* 
>  
> Valerio, in Lua it's more like e.g. Perl, 
> table.sort only works on plain arrays, 
> i.e. tables indexed by integers 1..n. 
> "Most functions in the table library assume that the table 
> represents an array or a list." 
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.5 
>  
> To list a hash sorted by key values, 
> get the list of keys as plain list, sort that, 
> and print the hash accordingly as you would in Perl. 
> for (sort keys %h) { print $_, " -> ", $h{$_}, "\n"; } 
>  
> well it requires a few more lines in Lua 
>  
>  
> cheers