Am i using table.sort wrong?

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1

I’m currently trying to sort a dictionary table that’s meant to look something like this:

table = {
["SwordName"] = {Price, Name}
}

I’m trying to sort the table by its price and this is my code for doing this:

local T = {}

for i, v in pairs(game.ReplicatedStorage.Swords:GetChildren()) do
	table.insert(T, i, v.Name == {v.Price.Value, v.Name})
end

table.sort(T, function(a,b)
	return a[1] > b[1]
end)

for i, v in pairs(T) do
	print(v[1])
end

In the console it prints that at the print(v[1]) i’m attempting to index a boolean with a number. What am i doing wrong here?

2

this piece of code is literally saving booleans. Your table is full of booleans, and you can’t compare booleans like this

Since they’re not numbers.

Try changing

table.insert(T, i, v.Name == {v.Price.Value, v.Name})

to

table.insert(T, i, v.Name = {v.Price.Value, v.Name})
3

Why are you comparing instead of defining in your first loop. You cant compare if there is no if statement. So change the = to =.

When doing v[1] its probably trying to index a bool value.

4

This is a syntax error because = assignments can’t be used in expressions. What OP wants is probably table.insert(T, {v.Price.Value, v.Name}). Also, the i parameter is optional, and just inserts at the end of the table.

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