Re: table.sort question

["Dietmar Segbert" <didi.segbert@...>]

Hello Listers,

thank for your help. Now it works great.

Regards

Dietmar

> oliver.kroth@nec-i.de schrieb am 19.10.16:

> 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
>>
>>