# How to sort yaml data by specific param
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976
**Category:** support
**Created:** [June 9, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976 "2022-06-09T06:32:24Z")
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### Author:  [@zachy9](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zachy9)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976/1 "2022-06-09T06:32:25Z")
I’m ranging over a yaml file like this:
```
{{ range (index .Site.Data .Params.gallery) }}
{{ range . }}
```
Here’s a sample of some entries from the yaml:
```nohighlight
- src: "210723.mp3"
title: "7/23/2021"
date: 210723
- src: "210724.mp3"
title: "7/24/2021"
date: 210724
- src: "210727.mp3"
title: "7/27/2021"
date: 210727
```
I want to display the results in order using the “date” attribute since that will place them in the correct chronological order. At the moment it displays them alphabetically (i.e. 2/2022 comes before 7/2021)
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### Author:  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976/2 "2022-06-09T18:14:05Z")
See [https://gohugo.io/functions/sort/#readout](https://gohugo.io/functions/sort/#readout). For example:
```auto
{{ range sort site.Data.foo "date" }}
...
{{ end }}
```
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### Author:  [@zachy9](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zachy9)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976/3 "2022-06-10T01:14:20Z")
using that method to range on foo.yaml I get the following error:
```auto
<.Site.Data.foo>: foo is not a method but has arguments
```
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### Author:  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976/4 "2022-06-10T01:17:17Z")
Please post a link to the public repository for your project.
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### Author:  [@zachy9](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zachy9)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976/5 "2022-06-11T03:32:25Z")
I don’t have one at the moment.
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### Author:  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-sort-yaml-data-by-specific-param/38976/6 "2022-06-11T04:43:08Z")
That is going to make troubleshooting somewhat difficult.