# Is the order of the key and values in nested entries arbitrary?

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**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://forums.jcsda.org/t/is-the-order-of-the-key-and-values-in-nested-entries-arbitrary/126 "2021-08-26T22:52:20Z")\
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Yes, if you are sitting at an obs space and you have a key word at the same level, it doesn’t matter what order they are in - they just have to exist and be found, The nesting needs to be in a particular order, but within a nesting, you don’t need a particular order.