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[ishkabible]

i thought ipairs only traversed the array part, e.g. it's already ordered in an arrary

[Jasoco]

If I have this correct, a table like:

table[1]
table[2]
table[3]
table[6]
table["words"]

Will be traversed from 1 to "words" when using pairs(), but only up to 3 if using ipairs(). I believe?

[slime]

The order of traversal when using pairs is not guaranteed, but yes, you're correct.

[Jasoco]

The order of traversal when using pairs is not guaranteed, but yes, you're correct.

Explain. Is there a way to know exactly what order they'll go through? I thought it would go in the order the table row was added. Especially if it uses a string instead of a number. And that you can use table.sort to order them for more predictable run through. At least that's what I count on when I use table.sort for my top-down engines to keep "front" objects in front of "back" ones.

[slime]

http://lua-users.org/wiki/ForTutorial

Lua provides a pairs() function to create the explist information for us to iterate over a table. The pairs() function will allow iteration over key-value pairs. Note that the order that items are returned is not defined, not even for indexed tables.

You can guarantee the order by sticking the keys into an array, sorting the array, and then accessing the values by the ordered keys.

[tentus]

New version! Several new little tweaks to make it a bit more user friendly.