Re: table.sort question

[Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>]

Hi Dietmar,

look at the description of table.sort. You may give a function as 
parameter that does the decision how to sort.

maybe like table.sort( vAdressen, function (a,b) return a.City < b.City 
end )

--
Oliver

Am 19.10.2016 um 18:53 schrieb Dietmar Segbert:
> Hello,
>
> i am new to lua. My Milestone 312 ACE, a Daisy-Player, Mp3-Player,
> Audiorecorder, from Bones
>   http://www.bones.ch
>
> becomes in the next Firmware a lua-interface.
>
> I can test the beta of that fw and so i want to program a little
> adressbook.
>
> Now i have a question to table.sort()
>
> i have a list
>
> local vAdressen = {}
> local vAdr = {}
> local vAdr.Name = ""
> local vAdr.City = ""
> ...
>
> I read the fields for the vAdr from a csv-file and store them  in
>
> vAdressen[1] = vAdr
> ...
> vAdressen[n] = vAdr
>
> so that i have all my adress-datasets in vAdressen
>
> Now  i want to sort the table vAdressen for name odr city or ...
>
> If i do
>
> print(vAdressen[1].Name]
>
> the name of my first dataset will be printed
>
> What st the correct syntax for the table.sort() function to sort for name
> or city?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best regards
>
> Dietmar Segbert