json sorting with keys?

[celestian]

I'm trying to sort a token property before displaying it. Here is the "Skills" property:

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{"Hide In Shadows":{"baseChance":10,"armorMod":0,"racialMod":0,"dexMod":5,"otherMod":0},"Detect Noise":{"baseChance":15,"armorMod":-5,"racialMod":0,"dexMod":0,"otherMod":0},"Climb Walls":{"baseChance":45,"armorMod":-5,"racialMod":0,"dexMod":10,"otherMod":0}}

I've tried

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[h: mySkills = getProperty("Skills")]
[h: mySkills = json.sort(mySkills)]

But it bitches about the sort. Is there a method to sort the way I'm storing those properties? To be clear I want to sort the "Hide in Shadows", "Detect Noise", "Climb Walls"/etc so when I do a foreach on mySkills they are in order alphabetically.

[Craig]

I'm trying to sort a token property before displaying it. Here is the "Skills" property:

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{"Hide In Shadows":{"baseChance":10,"armorMod":0,"racialMod":0,"dexMod":5,"otherMod":0},"Detect Noise":{"baseChance":15,"armorMod":-5,"racialMod":0,"dexMod":0,"otherMod":0},"Climb Walls":{"baseChance":45,"armorMod":-5,"racialMod":0,"dexMod":10,"otherMod":0}}

I've tried

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[h: mySkills = getProperty("Skills")]
[h: mySkills = json.sort(mySkills)]

But it bitches about the sort. Is there a method to sort the way I'm storing those properties? To be clear I want to sort the "Hide in Shadows", "Detect Noise", "Climb Walls"/etc so when I do a foreach on mySkills they are in order alphabetically.

JSON objects are basically javascript objects and don't support sorted field names. So even json.sort() was able to sort it (say as by converting it to a string), once you try access it again and it convers to a json object you would lose the sort order. So if you want to access them in a sorted order say for printing purposes you can do so like the following

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[h: mySkills = getProperty("Skills")]
[h: skillNames = json.sort(json.fields(myskills, 'json'))] <!-- get just the field names and sort them -->
[foreach(sname, skillNames, '<br>'), code: { <!-- loop through fields in order -->
     [h: sk = json.get(myskills, sname)]
     [r: 'Skill ' + sname  + ', base chance = ' + json.get(sk, 'baseChance')]
}]

[celestian]

Worked perfect, thanks for the tip!

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[h: mySkills = getProperty("Skills")]
[h: skillNames = json.sort(json.fields(mySkills, 'json'))]
[foreach(prop, skillNames, ""), code: {
... print out "prop" here in order...
}]