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Tsvetozar Bonev
10/19/2018, 11:33 AMHello, I have a map of format <String, Int> and want to sort it ascending by the Int value, how would I do this in Kotlin?
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enleur
10/19/2018, 11:36 AMh
hho
10/19/2018, 11:36 AMIsn't SortedMap sorted by map keys, not by values?
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Egor Trutenko
10/19/2018, 11:37 AMExactly ^
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enleur
10/19/2018, 11:37 AMah.. sorry my bad
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hho
10/19/2018, 11:40 AMe
enleur
10/19/2018, 11:40 AMtoList()/entries -> sortedBy, then
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Egor Trutenko
10/19/2018, 11:43 AMDon't forget conversion back to map, because
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Andreas Sinz
10/19/2018, 11:45 AMbut then you'd have to sort the entries everytime a new entry is added, not sure if this makes much sense
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hho
10/19/2018, 12:04 PMIf you convert back to map you're back where you started – a map has no sort order at all.
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arekolek
10/19/2018, 12:30 PMunless it’s a
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Tsvetozar Bonev
10/19/2018, 12:41 PMI went with the toList().sortedBy method because I only need the order to be kept strictly when rebuilding the map, thanks for the help 🙂
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Egor Trutenko
10/19/2018, 12:45 PM@hho sorry it's kinda late, but still
First, I just checked - converted map keeps the order.
Second - it is actually logical, because
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arekolek
10/19/2018, 12:51 PM😉
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Andreas Sinz
10/19/2018, 1:02 PM@arekolek and then you add another item and the ordering is off 😉
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arekolek
10/19/2018, 1:03 PMI agree with you completely, I was addressing the topic of
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