Associative array, for loop sorting keys ??

[Bulgogi]

Hello,
Is there a way to print the names in the order of insertion ?

IE :
- John
- Alex
- Peter

and not Alex, John, Peter which is what it currently does

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names := array()

names["John"]:=1
names["Alex"]:=2
names["Peter"]:=3

for key, val in names {
MsgBox % key " : " val

}

[swagfag]

assoc array is unordered(alphanumeric order actually). u can push assoc arrays into regular arrays or use the Scripting.Dictionary comobject

[boiler]

If you're saying that you can count on the value that was assigned as being their insertion order, you could build another array that is basically swapping the keys and the values, then use that one. I'm not sure what purpose you'd be serving but this does it:

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names := array()
ordered := array()

names["John"]:=1
names["Alex"]:=2
names["Peter"]:=3

for key, val in names {
	ordered[val] := key
}

for key, val in ordered {
	MsgBox, % key " : " val
}