spairs
🔗NAME
spairs
🔗SYNOPSIS
an iterator that provides sorted pairs from a table
🔗USAGE
local du = require "lib/dtutils"
for key, value in du.spairs(t, order) do
-- do something
end
t - table - table of key, value pairs order - function - an optional function to sort the pairs, if none is supplied, table.sort() is used
🔗DESCRIPTION
spairs is an iterator that returns key, value pairs from a table in sorted order. The sorting order is the result of table.sort() if no function is supplied, otherwise sorting is done as specified in the function.
🔗EXAMPLE
HighScore = { Robin = 8, Jon = 10, Max = 11 }
-- basic usage, just sort by the keys
for k,v in spairs(HighScore) do
print(k,v)
end
--> Jon 10
--> Max 11
--> Robin 8
-- this uses an custom sorting function ordering by score descending
for k,v in spairs(HighScore, function(t,a,b) return t[b] < t[a] end) do
print(k,v)
end
--> Max 11
--> Jon 10
--> Robin 8
🔗REFERENCE
Code copied from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15706270/sort-a-table-in-lua