How can I sort a dictionary from smallest to greatest?

[raid6n (Raiden)]

Hey! Let’s say I have a dictionary like this:

	local dictionary = {
		Part1 = "2", 
		Part2 = "7",
		Part3 = "18",
		Part4  = "1",
		Part5 = "4"
	}

How could I make a script that sorts it into:

	local dictionary = {
		Part4 = "1",
		Part1 = "2",
		Part5 = "4",
		Part2 = "7",
		Part3 = "18",
	}

[sjr04 (uep)]

The dictionary part of a table has no notion of order. Use an an array instead.

[raid6n (Raiden)]

Okay, if I were to insert all the values inside of the array, how could I sort it?

[uhi_o (HAT3UBERALLES)]

You can use this concept here.

How do you sort items in a dictionary according to Number?

Ordered iteration through a dictionary is never guaranteed so attempting to apply a sort to it is pointless. You’ll need to create a proxy array for this containing all the keys of the dictionary and sort that array. Then when you’re performing iteration, you do it over the array and from whatever value is selected for the current iteration, perform a lookup against your dictionary. local dictionary = { ["A"] = 1, ["B"] = 2, ["C"] = 3 } local array = {} for key, _ in pairs(diction…

Placing it all in an array then putting it back in a Dictionary sorted.

Edit: Also found this online

Associatively sorting a table by value in Lua

[raid6n (Raiden)]

LOL! Hi, uhi_o. Thanks, it worked.