# Looping a Dictionary prints the 2nd element first

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, dictionary\
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looping-a-dictionary-prints-the-2nd-element-first/78275 "2022-03-22T13:32:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![LispyArnuld](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lispyarnuld/32/34670_2.png) [@LispyArnuld](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LispyArnuld)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looping-a-dictionary-prints-the-2nd-element-first/78275/1 "2022-03-22T13:32:31Z")

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If I create a dictionary and then loop over it using a for loop, I expect the printing to go in order from first element to last. Here it’s different. Second element is being printed first by for loop. I wonder why.

```julia
julia> d = Dict([("A", 1), ("B", 2), ("C", 3)])
Dict{String, Int64} with 3 entries:
  "B" => 2
  "A" => 1
  "C" => 3

julia> for e in d
           println(e)
       end
"B" => 2
"A" => 1
"C" => 3

```

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looping-a-dictionary-prints-the-2nd-element-first/78275/2 "2022-03-22T13:35:46Z")

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`Dict` is not an ordered collection.

`OrderedDict` from OrderedCollections.jl will work though.

> **[GitHub - JuliaCollections/OrderedCollections.jl: Julia implementation of...](https://github.com/JuliaCollections/OrderedCollections.jl)**
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> Julia implementation of associative containers that preserve insertion order - GitHub - JuliaCollections/OrderedCollections.jl: Julia implementation of associative containers that preserve inserti...