<function name="SortedPairs" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc"> <description> This function can be used in a for loop instead of <page>Global.pairs</page>. It sorts all **keys** alphabetically. For sorting by specific **value member**, use <page>Global.SortedPairsByMemberValue</page>. For sorting by **value**, use <page>Global.SortedPairsByValue</page>. </description> <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <file line="518-L534">lua/includes/extensions/table.lua</file> <args> <arg name="table" type="table">The table to sort</arg> <arg name="desc" type="boolean" default="false">Reverse the sorting order</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="function">Iterator function</ret> <ret name="" type="table">The table being iterated over</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Example of usage.</description> <code> for id, text in SortedPairs( { "e", "b", "d", "c", "a" } ) do for id, text in SortedPairs({"e", "b", "d", "c", "a"}) do print(id, text) end print( "---" ) for id, text in SortedPairs( { e = 1, b = 2, d = 3, c = 4, a = 5 } ) do⤶ print("---") for id, text in SortedPairs({⤶ e = 1,⤶ b = 2,⤶ d = 3,⤶ c = 4,⤶ a = 5⤶ }) do⤶ print(id, text) end </code> <output> ``` 1 e 2 b 3 d 4 c 5 a --- a 5 b 2 c 4 d 3 e 1 ``` </output> </example>