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Richard Stevens
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Posted: 15th Apr 2024 17:21 Edited at: 15th Apr 2024 17:33
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I recently discovered the sort command.. which would probably be far more efficient than my horrible code if I could get it to work for me in other than a very simple array.

If instead i have a type that looks something like this:



so it might look like:

Quantity:4 //number of beasties in target scope
beastyno[4,6,2,13] // filled with my beasty reference numbers
distancetoexit[13,40,20,11} // filled with their respective distance to exit.

If I then wanted to sort beastyno on distancetoexit I'd get something like:

Quantity:4
distancetoexit [11,13,20,40] < sort this smallest first
beastyno[13,4,2,6] < and rearrange these to match

and then get my answer by querying

target=targets.beastyno[1]

is that possible? or am I being lazy? I do currently have something that works, just wondering if I'm missing a simple trick.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Apr 2024 19:16
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Have you tried:

targets.beastyno.sort()
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Robbert Prins
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Posted: 18th Apr 2024 21:10
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Perhaps sort () could play a role here, but in this particular case where you only want to know the closest target, an easier solution may be to loop through the distances and keep track of the smallest value and the index corresponding to that value.

Then after the loop, use the stored index to get the number of the corresponding beasty from the beasties array.

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Robbert Prins
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Posted: 18th Apr 2024 21:34 Edited at: 18th Apr 2024 22:14
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If you do want to use sort() I think it would be tricky to sort the distance array, and then apply the same sort order to the number array.

Instead you may want to create a Beast type that contains both a beast's distance and its number. The distance should be the first field of the type. Then create an array of beasts, and apply sort() to that array. This will sort the beasts according to their distance because sort() will sort on the first field of the type.

This is the same as the second code example under "Sorting and Searching" on this page:

https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation-studio/guides/12_array_changes.htm
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