Sort Folder In Workspace For Scripting Purposes

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1

I have a tile based game and I need to organize the children of a folder for a scripting table. Simplified: I have a folder full of models labeled “BeachPathNUMBER” such as “BeachPath15”.
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How would I organize this so the number progressively get larger? Or, how do I organize the table while scripting.

Thanks in advance!

2

Just simply do

BeachPath0001
BeachPath0002
BeachPath0003
BeachPath0004
BeachPath0010
BeachPath0100

And so on to organize the models so the number gets larger.

3

The question is, how do I organize the already named models. Simply renaming them won’t change their order

4

This should work, paste it in the command bar:

for i,v in pairs(workspace.NormalPatchAlongBeach:GetChildren()) do
    local number = v.Name:gsub('BeachPath', '')
    local str = '0000'..number
    str = str:sub(str:len() - 3, str:len())
    v.Name = 'BeachPath'..str
end
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5

Kinda off topic but my command bar hasn’t been working lately, when I press enter it just selects everything. Any idea how to fix this?

6

Method 1

local children = NormalPathAlongBeach:GetChildren();

for i = 1, #children do
  local path = NormalPathAlongBeach:FindFirstChild("BeachPath" .. i);
end;

Method 2

local children = NormalPathAlongBeach:GetChildren();

print(children); --Unsorted
table.sort(children, function(one,two)
  return tonumber(string.sub(one.Name, 10)) < tonumber(string.sub(two.Name, 10));
end);
print(children); --Sorted
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7

Thank you, help appreciated (as promised:)!

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