Re: Associative array entries order differs from declaration

2019-08-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/15/19 11:26 AM, Léa Gris wrote: > While dealing with getting keys of arrays, I found out that associative > array keys where not registered in the same order as declared: There's no guarantee that will happen. It's a hash table. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Re: Associative array entries order differs from declaration

2019-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 05:26:03PM +0200, Léa Gris wrote: > Is there a way to control the order of entries in an associative array? No. > What rules applies to the order of entries? None. If you require both an associative array and an ordered list, then you will need two different data structu