textutils.unserialize() rearranging items in table

Hello,
I am working on an OS for ComputerCraft. In it, I have a serialized table in a file that is read by the program and the keys are displayed in a row. I want the keys to be displayed in a specific order, but they are always re-arranged into an order I do not want.
In the file, the keys are in the order {"File", "Edit", "View", "Go", "Window"}.
In the row, the text is in the order {"View", "Edit", "Window", "File", "Go"}.
I cannot change the order in the program because the program has to be portable for other files like this one. Is this a bug? Is there anyway I can fix this problem? I am running CraftOS 1.7.
Thanks, Jack

The problem is probably not the serialization I just checked it, everything works fine, what do you use to display the texts?

Let's see your actual table, please. If you're using textual keys, there is no "order" of elements inherent in the table.

Lyqyd, on 24 July 2016 - 10:09 PM said:

Let's see your actual table, please. If you're using textual keys, there is no "order" of elements inherent in the table.

Here is the whole table:

Spoiler

{
  File = {
    ["New Folder"] = "-newfol",
    Print = "-print",
    ["New Window"] = "-newwin",
  },
  Edit = {
    Cut = "_cut",
    Paste = "_paste",
    Undo = "-undo",
    Copy = "_copy",
  },
  View = {
    Icons = "-icons",
    List = "-list",
  },
  Go = {
    Forward = "-forward",
    ["To Folder..."] = "-goto",
    Back = "-back",
  },
  Window = {
    Hide = "_hide",
    Close = "_close",
  },
}

I print with:

for l,x in pairs(menulist) do
    write("   " .. l)
  end

where menulist is a table with the names.

Your table is using strings ("View", "Window", etc.) as keys, so there is no inherent order to the table. If you want the table to be in a specific order, you might have to structure your entries a little differently:

{
  {
	name = "File",
	contents = {
	  ["New Folder"] = "-newfol",
	  Print = "-print",
	  ["New Window"] = "-newwin",
	}
  },
  {
	name = "Edit",
	contents = {
	  Cut = "_cut",
	  Paste = "_paste",
	  Undo = "-undo",
	  Copy = "_copy",
	}
  },
}

Note that the inner tables (which contain the "name" and "contents" keys) will be implicitly assigned numeric keys when they are declared this way.