Thank you, but this is not what I’m looking for. I know how to sort a table, and I know the Lua table tutorial (the Lua wiki is, IMHO, really terrible and disorganized). I have to construct deeply nested tables and sometimes lose track of what is at what level of my table, so I was wondering if there was an easy way of visualizing a nested table. On the web, you can find a number of (mostly abandoned) projects; the one at http://siffiejoe.github.io/lua-microscope/ says: "Many Lua programmers have written their own pretty-printer or data dumper and some even use it for (de-)serializing Lua data structures.” So I was wondering if any of the Lua users here on the list has something they want to share.
Thomas > On 30 Jul 2016, at 16:31, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> > 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)). > > \starttext > > \startluacode > > local testtable = { z = "A", y = "B", x = "C" } > > for i, j in next, testtable do > context("%s:%s",i,j) > context.par() > end > > context.blank() > > for i, j in table.sortedhash(testtable) do > context("%s:%s",i,j) > context.par() > end > > \stopluacode > > \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
