An updated Lua table sorter
Like what I posted yesterday,
here is a
Lua iterator which goes through elements in a table in sorted order.
This routine works like the pairs() function included with
Lua:
-- Like pairs() but sorted
function sPairs(inTable, sFunc)
if not sFunc then
sFunc = function(a, b)
local ta = type(a)
local tb = type(b)
if(ta == tb)
then return a < b
end
return tostring(ta) <
tostring(tb)
end
end
local keyList = {}
local index = 1
for k,_ in pairs(inTable) do
table.insert(keyList,k)
end
table.sort(keyList, sFunc)
return function()
key = keyList[index]
index = index + 1
return key, inTable[key]
end
end
Example usage of the above function:
a={z=1,y=2,c=3,w=4}
for k,v in sPairs(a) do
print(k,v)
end
With a sort function:
a={z=1,y=2,c=3,w=4}
function revS(a,b)
return a>b
end
for k,v in sPairs(a,revS) do
print(k,v)
end
revS (“Reverse sort”) is a reverse sorter. Note that revS
assumes the elements to be sorted are all of the same type.
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