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How to print a table in order?
Hello, I made this table and I want to print it in order, how would I do this?
local tableThing = {
hello = 'Hello',
hi = 'Hi',
hai = 'Hai'}
This is just an example. I attempted this but it printed them randomly, not in order.
for i, child in pairs(tableThing) do print(child) end
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I'm no good with tables aha CrazyCorrs 98 — 5y
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You don't. Dictionaries are unordered sets, unlike normal arrays, which have indexes. Without another function to order your dictionary, it won't do it automatically. I would just not use a dictionary in your case.
local t = {'hi', 'hello'}
print ( table.concat(t, ', ') )
or
local t = {
{name = 'hi', othervalue = 1},
{name = 'hello', othervalue = 'string'}
}
table.insert(t, {name = 'harry potter', othervalue = true})
for i,v in pairs(t) do
print(v.name)
end