In pairs inventory table

[Slimwaffle]

I am working on an inventory script. I have the thing pretty much working the way I want. I just want it to sort alphabetically using in pairs. How can I adjust the code below to still do the same things but also sort alphabetically?

--Material Item List
    mitem ={}
    mitem[0] = "Wood" 
    mitem[1] = "Steel"
    mitem[2] = "Concrete"
    mitem[3] = "Rubber"
    
    for i=0, #mitem do
        
        local selected=false
        
        GameMenu.materials:AddItem( mitem)
    end
    
    GameMenu.usematerial = Widget:Button("Trash",250,y,72,30,ipanel)
    y=y+sep

[macklebee]

table.sort() will sort the table alphabetically.

mitem ={}
mitem[1] = "Wood" 
mitem[2] = "Steel"
mitem[3] = "Concrete"
mitem[4] = "Rubber"
	
System:Print("Unsorted Table******")
for k,v in ipairs(mitem) do
	System:Print(v)
end

table.sort(mitem)
System:Print("Sorted Table********")
for k,v in ipairs(mitem) do
	System:Print(v)
end	

will result in the following output:

Quote

Unsorted Table******
Wood
Steel
Concrete
Rubber
Sorted Table********
Concrete
Rubber
Steel
Wood

 

[Josh]

Note that Lua arrays are 1-based. Don't start with zero.

[macklebee]

12 hours ago, Josh said:

Note that Lua arrays are 1-based. Don't start with zero.

yep - sorry i forgot to mention that above but I was getting ready to leave for work when i posted

[Josh]

Using table.insert is an easy way to avoid that confusion:
https://www.leadwerks.com/learn?page=Tutorials_Lua-Scripting_Tables

--Create a new table
mytable={}

--Insert some items into the table
table.insert(mytable,"Thing 1")
table.insert(mytable,"Thing 2")
table.insert(mytable,"Thing 3")

for i=1, #mytable do
	Print(mytable[i])
end

 

[Slimwaffle]

thanks heaps. I got this working perfectly. My materials list for inventory is working great. I did post another thread though. Because I am having an issue with the scrap button. Where I can't call self (in the code for scrap function it returns nill) and values on my generic item script aren't storing to each entity and they are changing each time I add a model into the scene and using the value of the last placed model.