Trying to get items position in table with string keys.

[zippy36jr]

So i'm working on my credit shop again and I am having issues with the way i'm storing items. When I add items to the global item table i'm using strings as a uid.

To display the items in the shop UI I am looping through the table to make each entry for the items in the shop but I don't know how to get the item's position in the table since the keys are strings and not numbers. I would change to number keys but i'm planning on adding a trading system and website to manage items on.

SCS:addSwep("crowbar",{
name = "Crowbar",
description = "This gives you a crowbar",
cost = "250",
swep = "weapon_crowbar",
model = "w_model.mdl",
perm = false
})
This is how the UI looks:

https://i.imgur.com/ElFGvg0.png

[Revenge282]

If the keys aren't numeric, then the table is not really sequential. The best you could do for ordering it is by alphabetical. You could get significantly more complex and order it by one of the properties in the table, but that's a big leap forward.

[zippy36jr]

Its a bit messy but this is where my issue is I was using number numeric keys on an earlier revision but I changed to string keys due to the way i'm going to implement the inventory. I was using the keys to position each "item box" but now that they are strings i'm not sure how to go about it.

[Lua] help.lua

[bigdogmat]

Just store a variable and increment it each iteration.