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Revision as of 01:06, 3 September 2022

Tables are one of the features of Lua script, that make the scripting language so dynamic & easy to use, as they allow us to easily create tables, insert, remove & sort data. Tables are often comprised of arrays that usually involve keywords - or an index number - & a value. Tables can be accessed using multiple different methods.

< Index >

Creating a function

method 1: automatically generated index values
local t = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, "six", 7, "ate", 9} -- automatically assigns an index number to each value starting from 1
local str = "" -- empty string

for i = 1, #t do -- for 1 to table total, print value of index number
 str = str .. t[i] -- add current table index value to existing text data in the str variable
 if i < #t then str = str .. ", " end -- if i is less than table entry total then insert ", " into the str variable
end

print("table data: " .. str) -- print the table data
print( "table entry total: " .. #(t) ) -- print total of table entries
Basic lua (tables) 1.png
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