Why is the table not sorting my strings = integer and when inserting a string = integer to the table the output is 1 = false

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You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to know why it is not working as intended, please : D
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    Why is the table not sorting my strings = integer and when inserting a string = integer to the table the output is 1 = false. The output is also not in order
-- local newtable = {
	["value1"] = 10,
	["value2"] = 20,
   ["value3" ] = 5

	
	
	
	

}





print(newtable)


local newco = coroutine.create(function()
	
	while task.wait(4) do
		table.sort(newtable,function(a,b)

			return a > b 

		end)
		
		
		
		
		
		
		for i,v in pairs(newtable) do

			print(i,v)



		end
	end
	
end)


coroutine.resume(newco)



for i,v in pairs(newtable) do

	print(i,v)



end




table.insert(newtable, "value4" == 15) -- when inserted I am getting 1 false since commas

Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.

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Dictionaries can not be sorted. Simple as that.

also, instead of

table.insert(newtable, "value4" == 15)

did you mean to do

newtable["value4"] = 15

The way you have it, it adds a boolean value

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when I write newtable[“value4”] = 15 I get red lines

4

What text shows when you hover over the red lines?
Did you make sure to not include the table.insert bit?

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yeah I removed it and now it works I just forget to remove table insert

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but now it is still not sorting properly

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From my first message:

Dictionaries can not be sorted. Simple as that.

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oh okay thanks for telling me : )

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You can convert it to an array like so:

local newtable = {
	[1] = 10,
	[2] = 20,
	[3] = 5
}

table.insert(newtable, 15)

task.defer(function()
	while task.wait(1) do
		table.sort(newtable, function(a,b)
			return a > b
		end)

		print(newtable) --> will always print in order of highest to lowest value
	end
end)

Also I switched from coroutines to task.defer because in the code sample you gave us you never pause it.

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