hello, I'm making a leader board type thing , and i would like to know how to sort a table form highest to lowest, i know about table.sort, but it sorts it from lowest to highest...so is there a way to sort it form highest to lowest?
thanks
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How to table.sort a table from highest to lowest?
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table.sort contains a predicational argument. This is a callback function that is be used to condition the sorting, and can allow us to redefine the attributes' evaluation during the process.
The technical jargon may be confusing, but I assure you the application is a lot simpler than most would expect. The function is provided with the current & next enumerating attributes—the two tokens that are compared for smallest, and sorted accordingly. All we must do, is reverse the Boolean expression:
local arbitraryTable = {4,2,6,3,7,5}
table.sort(arbitraryTable, function(a,b)
return a > b --// Previously evaluated as <
end)
print(unpack(arbitraryTable)) --// 7,6,5,4,3,2
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Of course there is a way. Just type table.sort in your script and read the description carefully