1. Posted by Taborious on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:01:04

    ok, this is making my brain hurt and it seems like it would be simple, but i can't find anything to get it working.

    I want to sort a nested table.

    t[1]= {name="bob",amount="2",link="whiskey") t[2]= {name="steve",amount="3",link="bravo") t[3]= {name="alex",amount="2",link="alpha")

    I want to sort table t by the "link" variable and then print the sorted table. i just cnat figure it out...???

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:27:50

    ok, this is making my brain hurt and it seems like it would be simple, but i can't find anything to get it working.

    I want to sort a nested table.

    t[1]= {name="bob",amount="2",link="whiskey") t[2]= {name="steve",amount="3",link="bravo") t[3]= {name="alex",amount="2",link="alpha")

    I want to sort table t by the "link" variable and then print the sorted table. i just cnat figure it out...???

     table.sort(t, function(a, b)
   return a.link < b.link
 end)

 for k, v in ipairs(t) do
   print(v.link)
 end

    Sorting tables such as this is covered in Chapter 5, I believe.