So I'm making a game that has a GUI to show your score, but I've noticed that my code, which iterates through the dictionary using pairs(), sometimes doesn't keep the original order; When I make the dictionary, the order is PointsWon, PointsTied, PointsLost, but when I iterate through it, the order is PointsTied, PointsLost, PointsWon.
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How to make Dictionaries stay in order?
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pairs does not care about order, you have 2 solutions here, first is to use array instead, it hurts readability because you would have to remember the numbers but adds performance:
local Table = {
[1] = 0, -- PointsWon
[2] = 0, -- PointsTied
[3] = 999, -- PointsLost
}
for Index, Value in ipairs(Table) do
print(Index, Value)
end
-- 1 0
-- 2 0
-- 3 999
ipairs only works for arrays and it goes by order just like for loop. The second option is to create array of orders like this:
local Order = {"PointsWon", "PointsTied", "PointsLost"}
local Table = {
PointsLost = 34893,
PointsWon = 0,
PointsTied = 0,
}
for _, Key in ipairs(Order) do
local Value = Table[Key]
print(Key, Value)
end
-- PointsWon 0
-- PointsTied 0
-- PointsLost 34893
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