How to swap an item in a list while keeping the order intact

[jayy]

I have a list of texts, e.g.

B
A
E
D
C

I want to swap E with F in a workflow, without changing the order of the items.

I can remove E and add F but then F would be added at the end, instead of being inserted at where E was.

Is there a way to do it? Or is a plugin needed? Thanks

[boston85719]

If these items are from the database, you could add a field to the data type that is called sort order and be of type number and use that for sorting the list and so if you want to switch E with F you simply swap their sort order numbers in the DB

If these lists are not from the database, you could look into some plugins that do list manipulations of which I believe there are a few.

[jayy]

It’s not from the database. I’ll look into the plugins. Thanks!

[amer]

Hi @jayy ,

• Assume that you have a list of text in state called text :
  If you want to replace item and keep order of elements
  → the way to do that by using find and replace you will use find and replace as you see
  [1] → with value you want to replace
  [2] → value you want to add to the list
  
  
  
  PREVIEW WHAT I EXPLAINED :
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[jayy]

Oh that’s brilliant. Thank you!