I've read through the wiki, as it shows: table.sort (table [, comp]) It states, "If comp is given, then it must be a function that receives two table elements, and returns true when the first is less than the second (so that not comp(a[i+1],a[i]) will be true after the sort). If comp is not given, then the standard Lua operator < is used instead." I have no clue what this means. Could someone possibly give me an example? I'm using this for a table of arrays order in this sort of manner:
t = {
["5"] = {"Name",1,},
["2"] = {"Name",1,},
["4"] = {"Name",1,},
["1"] = {"Name",45827,},
["3"] = {"Name",12,},
}
I had tried sorting them as so, but it did not order the keys from 1 to 5. Instead, it went off the values inside. Could using the second parameter fix this issue, and make it go off converting the key to a number and sorting it so? If so, what would the function be for that?
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Essentially what sort does is it sorts your table, #'s first (0-9), and letters last (A-Z); however, I'm not sure about special characters (*,&,^,#,$). To note, you don't require a second variable for the second table: all you need do is have your table set, then have sort go through & set everything into place.