How to loop a dictionary wth a proper order?

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#1

I was scripting rarity system. And then I noticed that for i,v in pairs do loops in a chaotic order. And this ruins the whole probability up
However using ipairs isn’t the solution either. Because ipairs can’t loop through a dictionary. Same thing applies to for i,v in table(dictionary im my case)

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This is the proper order
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And ths is the order it goes through

#2

dictionaries are an unordered data structure, the key value pairs are not stored in the order you set them

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#3

ipairs can loop through a dictionary no?

you just print key and then the value after it

#4

ohhh nvm that’s pairs my bad charrr

#5

It can’t, i added a print check and it doesnt

#6

hmmm

i’m not sure what you’re trying to use that dictionary for

but perhaps wherever you call it, you could index it with whatever you need so it prints out the correct key and value?

i can’t really get a different idea rn

#7

To get them in order you could try sorting them like this

local Rarities = {
	[1] = {
		["Content"] = "Fire",
		["Rarity"] = 1,
	},
	[2] = {
		["Content"] = "Water",
		["Rarity"] = 24,
	},
	[3] = {
		["Content"] = "Earth",
		["Rarity"] = 25,
	},
	[4] = {
		["Content"] = "Air",
		["Rarity"] = 25,
	},
}

for i,v in Rarities do

	print(v["Content"] .. " " .. tostring(v["Rarity"]))

end
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#8

tysmmmm it worked, lemme say some stuff so the post has enough chars