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Cryogenical
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String format related question

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I've been trying to create a playlist with a list of songs.
These songs are of course sorted in a path format, so

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list = {
     "assets/music/matryoshkachorus.mp3",
     "assets/music/senbonzakurachorus.mp3",
     "assets/music/noushouchorus.mp3",
     "assets/music/headphoneactorchorus.mp3",
     "assets/music/nyanchorus.mp3",
     "assets/music/rimokonchorus.mp3",}
when I try to sort the table and add each song to a list, the names are "assets/music/matryoshkachorus.mp3" and so forth. I just want to sort the names and format out the path ("assets/music/") and the .mp3 suffix.
Been searching for a solution, and will keep searching.
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I cheated and made a separate list for titles. Still think there's a better way to go about this.

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namelist = {
     "Matryoshka Chorus",                       -- one
     "Senbonzakura Chorus",                     -- two
     "Noushou Chorus",                          -- three
     "HeadphoneActor Chorus",                   -- four
     "Nyan Chorus",                             -- five
     "Rimokon Chorus",                          -- six
     }

    songlist = {
     "assets/music/matryoshkachorus.mp3",       -- one
     "assets/music/senbonzakurachorus.mp3",     -- two
     "assets/music/noushouchorus.mp3",          -- three
     "assets/music/headphoneactorchorus.mp3",   -- four
     "assets/music/nyanchorus.mp3",             -- five
     "assets/music/rimokonchorus.mp3",          -- six
     }
Sorted it using

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for i,title in ipairs(namelist) do
            songchoice:AddChoice(title)
        end
EDIT: I'm using the APIs LoveFrames and TEsound.
Now when I try to play the songs using this multichoice list, it's not playing anything. I know it's because it's unable to find the path, but I don't know how to compensate for that.
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Post by DaedalusYoung »

Without knowing the rest of your code; why not use the filename as table key and the song name as value?

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songlist = {
    matryoshkachorus = "Matryoshka Chorus",
    senbonzakurachorus = "Senbonzakura Chorus",
    -- and so on
    }
Then instead of ipairs, use pairs.

Note I only used the filename, I didn't add the "assets/music/" nor ".mp3", because if these things are the same for all songs, you don't need to add them, just add that in your song load function.
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There's no song load function, with TEsound you're supposed to be able to load a song by using it's "TEsound.play(songpath)" function. I've attempted what you just told me to do to no results.
I know that I'm doing something ridiculously wrong, but I just don't know what else to do.

I'm probably not utilizing these sorting functions correctly.
What's the difference between using ipairs and pairs?
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Edit: Roland explained what i tried to better below me

DaedalusYoung probably meant this then:

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TEsound.play("assets/music/" .. songname[filename] .. ".mp3")
On the other hand,
when sorting, you could sort with using gsub and a pattern that returns only what's after the last /, or in other words, the filename and the extension, and then it will sort comparing those only, not the full path.


the difference between ipairs and pairs is that ipairs only goes through integer keys (1,2,3,...n) until the first gap, while pairs goes through everything in the table.
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Post by Roland_Yonaba »

Hi,
Cryogenical wrote:What's the difference between using ipairs and pairs?
The difference lies in the way Lua treats tables: array-like or map-like. "Ipairs" will let you iterate on all values in the array part of a table, while "pairs" will go through all the values inside this table, being in the array part and the hash part.
I remeber I wrote recently a lengthy post on it, that you can find here. The part titled "Tables" is all relevant to you, I believe. And it was written in a straightforward manner, so I hope it helps.
For more details, you can take a look at "What's the difference between pairs and ipairs ?" on luafaq.

Now, concerning the initial issue, I think there are many ways to solve the problem. I can suggest one, though I am not advocating it is the best way. The Great DaedalusYoung cleverly mentionned it was not necessary to keep prefixes and suffixes for each entry in the songlist, since they were the same. I'll go with that, and treat then the songlist as a simple array:

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local songlist = { "song1", "song2", "song3",...}
In that respect, to sort all those songs in alphabetical order, i'll just write:

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table.sort(songlist)
You can also have the following to format properly a songname to a path:

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local function wrapString(str, prefix, suffix)
  return prefix..str..suffix
end

for _, songname in ipairs(songlist) do
  print(wrapString(songname, "assets/music/", ".mp3"))
end
Another way to handle it is to keep the original table as-is, i.e store the full song path instead of the name only, and sort elements, but using pattern matching tricks to extract the songnames only and compare them. For instance, this:

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table.sort(songlist, function (a, b) 
  local songnameA = a:match('.+/(.+)%.mp3$')
  local songnameB = b:match('.+/(.+)%.mp3$')
  return songnameA < songnameB
end)
Hope this helps!
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