Re: lua tables - how do you cope?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 7/30/2016 3:04 PM, Joseph Canedo wrote:
> If the requirement is to iterate on a table having the keys, values
> sorted by key (assuming the keys can be sorted), there are ways to do
> this. Please see http://lua-users.org/wiki/SortedIteration for an
> example (this just replaces pairs(t) with orderedPairs(t)).

or just in context

for k, v in table.sortedhash(t)
   print(k,v)
end

btw,

mtxrun --script foo.lua

has all that on board as well

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> Hope this helps
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> Joseph
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> *De : *Schmitz Thomas A. <mailto:thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
> *Envoyé le :*samedi 30 juillet 2016 12:21
> *À : *mailing list for ConTeXt users <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> *Objet :*[NTG-context] lua tables - how do you cope?
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> This is less a specific question about ConTeXt than a hope for good
> advice: I’m maltreating my xml files with a mixture of TeX and Lua. I
> want to extract and typeset information in different forms, so I first
> collect everything in lua tables, rearrange and order these tables and
> typeset the results. All fine and dandy. My problem is that I have to
> have tables within tables within tables… you get the picture. One aspect
> of Lua that is really bugging me is the fact that associative tables
> have no order, which can be a pain in the butt for this kind of
> operation. So I have to be careful that I have to use constructs that
> will keep the order in which items have been added and loop through them
> via ipairs() instead of pairs(). I find it difficult to keep track of
> what’s inside my layers upon layers of tables. So my question is: how do
> those of you who are more experienced with this kind of question
> proceed? Do you have any handy tool to visualize a table? Any tips you
> want to share?
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> Thanks a lot!
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> Thomas
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