Alphabetize Table

Hello All,

A friend of mine made me this program for Thaumcraft and I was wondering how I could get the tables to be orders alphabetically.

The code:

http://pastebin.com/pm0ZNFUA

Currently it will just find the jars in order of when they were connected. The reason I would like this to be in alphabetical order is because it creates two lists (side-by-side). One for Void jars and one for normal jars.

Thanks in advance

You'd want to use table.sort and provide it a custom function that compared the names from each entry. Check out the Lua documentation on table.sort for more information.

Isn't there anyone searching before posting? I feel like there was a similiar question like this just recently.

It seems to get like this every time Dire releases a CC-related video.

In any case, this may be worth a read.

Lyqyd, on 19 June 2014 - 12:59 AM said:

You'd want to use table.sort and provide it a custom function that compared the names from each entry. Check out the Lua documentation on table.sort for more information.

I have tried but I have no real idea how to implement it (I did not find the LUA documentation on table.sort() to be very helpful)

TheOddByte, on 19 June 2014 - 01:20 AM said:

Isn't there anyone searching before posting? I feel like there was a similiar question like this just recently.

I tried looking but didn't really find much

Lua can allready use <, >, etc on strings. You don't need to specify any special function to table.sort(), it will work just fine.

Eyes please <_</>

It would work fine if his table were a table of strings, but it's actually a table of tables of functions, so he'll need to write a custom function for sorting that gets the name of each from the function in each table, then compare those and return true or false based on that comparison. Then he'll need to use that function with table.sort.