will calling “get keys” and “get values” back-to-back (no other code ran between them) from a map container reliably give you arrays whose values “pair by index” (i cant think of a better word)?
example. keys_array[3] and values_array[3] are a pair from the original map container?
I hope i explained this well enough.
I believe so. Have you seen otherwise?
no but the documentation is very light on this. The closest information I found is on the C++ side. TMaps are sorted, which would mean it should work, but blueprints don’t always fall in line with C++.
Basically, if Map Containers aren’t reliable in this way, I will have to reconfigure the data structure later and it will be a pain of manually re-entering tons of data. I was hoping to get a clear answer before committing to the choice of data container.
Ah, more information. Then no, not at all reliable.
A map has no ordering, you will get the same values for the same keys, but it intentionally has no ordering of the keys.
It’s not an array, as you know 
TMaps in C++ do have ordering.
Yes. But for a map, ordering is not part of the deal 