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How do I change the order of specific elements in a table?
Ok so let's say I had a table like this:
local Test = {
["Anim1"] = {};
["Anim2"] = {};
["Anim3"] = {};
["Anim4"] = {};
}
How would I edit the table so that it looks more like this?
local Test = {
["Anim1"] = {};
["Anim3"] = {};
["Anim2"] = {};
["Anim4"] = {};
}
I attempted table.sort() but I couldn't quite figure it out. I don't really need code, a walkthrough would be good enough. Thanks!
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Having a function attempt to locate the index seems a bit impossible. There technically isn't an index for any of those, so I have no idea how to approach this. Shawnyg 4330 — 8y
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If I understand correctly, you want to swap elements around in a table, I.E. element at index 1 swap positions with element at index 2.
You can do this with the below function, which I believe to be fairly easy to understand.
-- tbl - Table the elements reside in
-- i1 - Index of the first object
-- i2 - Index of the second object
function swapElements(tbl, i1, i2)
local v = tbl[i2]
tbl[i2] = tbl[i1]
tbl[i1] = v
end
So in a list consisting of 1, 2, 3 doing swapElements on index 1 and index 2 would produce 2,1,3
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You're not fulfilling his question. He asking for a function similar to yours, but will FIND the index. Shawnyg 4330 — 8y
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I'm not sure if I'm still following, surely the implementation of swapElements(table, "Anim2", "Anim3") would be what you're refering to when you say index. RightLegRed 15 — 8y