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<function name="sort" parent="table" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Sorts a table either ascending or by the given sort function.</description>⤶ <description>Sorts a table either ascending or by the given sort function.<note>This function modifies the table you give to it.</note>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="tbl" type="table">The table to sort.</arg> <arg name="sorter" type="function">If specified, the function will be called with 2 parameters each. Return true in this function if you want the first parameter to come first in the sorted array.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Sorting table by an integer</description> <code> local tbl = { { "Jeff", 8 }, { "Peter", 17 }, { "Shay", 11 }, { "Janine", 1 } } table.sort( tbl, function(a, b) return a[2] > b[2] end ) </code> <output>Table going from highest number to lowest (1: Peter, 2: Shay, 3: Jeff, 4: Janine)</output> </example> <example> <description>Sorting a player table by a NWInt</description> <code> local plys = player.GetAll() table.sort( plys, function(a, b) return a:GetNWInt("Score") > b:GetNWInt("Score") end ) </code> <output>Player table sorted by score going from highest to lowest</output> </example>