[slang-users] iterate the elements of an assoc_array in sorted order

[Jörg Sommer]

Hallo John,

"John E. Davis" <davis at space.mit.edu> wrote:
> Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>>how is it possible to iterate through an Assoc_Array in sorted order.
>>This is ugly:
>>
>>foreach ( assoc_get_keys(templates)[array_sort(assoc_get_keys(templates))] )
>
> You will have to perform a sort as you have done.  I would write the
> above as
>
>     keys = assoc_get_keys (templates);
>     foreach k (keys[array_sort(keys)]) {...}
>
> which I find somewhat more readable.

Indeed. Why foreach do not output the elements of an assoc_array in
sorted order? Isn't it implemented as a tree and do foreach not traverse
the tree in-order?

Bye, Jörg.
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