Sorting Tables In a Particular Order

[GoodBoy_786 (NeuroMaster)]

So I have a table with some numbers. Example: {5, 9, 8, 3, 5}. Now I want to sort them. But I don’t want to sort them in ascending or descending order. I want to sort them in a particular order. Example like: 5 < 8 < 9 < 3. Any idea how to do this?

First I thought of manually checking in order and inserting it into a new table. But that would be very inefficient for a table with a large amount of numbers.

Any help is appreciated.

[dthecoolest]

@GoodBoy_786

particular order

Quite hard to sort if we don’t know this particular order or system you are using.

But I believe what you can do is assign these values to another “weight” value which represents the way you want them sorted in ascending order sort of like sorting a dictionary.

Dictionary Sorting

If you want to get a sorted array representation of the contents of a dictionary then store all of the key, value pairs in an array. local array = {} for key, value in pairs(dictionary) do array[#array+1] = {key = key, value = value} end table.sort(array, function(a, b) return a.value > b.value end)