Editing Module talk:TableTools (section)

== keySort documentation or examples please ==

Could someone add to documentation, or point to good live examples, of the '''{{para|keySort}}''' ''function'', as used in {{slink|Module:TableTools|keysToList|nopage=true}} and {{slink|Module:TableTools|sortedPairs|nopage=true}}? Related to [[:mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#table.sort|Lua manual:table.sort]]? I need a simple non-numerical sort ;-) Thx. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|talk]]) 10:19, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
:If you provide a short example of dummy data to be sorted I'll have a look. As a quick example, if <code>keys</code> is a list of values each of which might be a number or a string, the following would sort the table so numbers are sorted before strings.
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
table.sort(keys, function (a, b)
    if type(a) == type(b) then
        return a < b
    elseif type(a) == 'number' then
        return true
    end
end)
</syntaxhighlight>
:[[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 23:29, 20 November 2021 (UTC)