Annoyances of Flex - Associative Array

Question

I have an associative array and while iterating through this array, using foreach loop. Flex is loosing the order. This is so annoying.

Why is this happening?

How can i avoid this?

Answer 1

Per the specification, the values in an associative array are not "ordered".

If you need to get values in a specified order, you'll need to sort the keys yourself.

Answer 2

Associative arrays are implementation of the Hash table data structure, and hence are unordered by nature.