I need to sort instances in a table

[KUW_Alt1 (Kuw)]

So for certain purposes, I have a ton of instances in a script that are named in order (name_0, name_1 name_2…), but when I use

	for i,v in pairs(script:GetChildren()) do
		print(v)
	end

then it comes up as a mixed order. I really need them to be in order from lowest to highest.

[Dragonfable6000 (Dragon)]

Try using ipairs and see if this works. Using pairs usually returns the array randomly. More information here pairs and ipairs | Roblox Creator Documentation

[KUW_Alt1 (Kuw)]

i just realized I used script:GetAttributeChangedSignal("Recording"):Connect(function() so it was firing twice lmao (yeah but i think from the way I generate the instances it auto sorts I think)

[7z99 (cody)]

Order isn’t guaranteed this way. If you want a surefire way to get them in a certain order you could use table.sort, passing a function to compare the children like so, assuming all of the script’s children names follow a specific format:

local children = script:GetChildren()

table.sort(children, function(a, b)
    return tonumber(a.Name:gsub('name_', '')) < tonumber(b.Name:gsub('name_', ''))
end)

for _, child in children do...
-- or
for _, child in ipairs(children) do...