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[Kryptanyte]

As the title says, I am trying to take random letters and numbers from a table which is randomly generated, and make them all into a single variable.

I have been going through the http://lua-users.org/wiki/ for about an hour now looking for such a function, and this is my question, does this exist? or do we have to come up with some really smart way of combining them?

*EDIT*

Found it. Just by chance, table.concat(table, separator)

so if you did something like

tableToJoin = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7}

joined = table.concat(tableToJoin, ",")

It would create it exactly how it is in the table, but if you were to change the separator to like "l" then there would be a l between each table item in the variable, so like 1l2l3l4l5l6l7

[theoriginalbit]

tostring should do what you need if you are dealing with elements individually, otherwise this works if you just want the whole table in the variable

t = {1,2,3,4,"5 6 7 8 9"}
print(table.concat(t, ', '))

that will output

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6 7 8 9

[Kryptanyte]

Yeah, I got it probably as you posted that, Its intended as a randomly generated cipher for an encryption function

[theoriginalbit]

fair enough. just on a side note this code

t = {1,2,3,4,"5 6 7 8 9", someKey = 5, ['anotherKey'] = 'aValue'}
print(table.concat(t, ' '))

will still only output

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6 7 8 9

it doesn't do key/values...

[Kryptanyte]

Thats sort of implied, because of how the tables work with that, it doesn't print the table key if you just print() it

[theoriginalbit]

just making sure you realised, not everyone does, and not everyone knows how it works in the backend. so it could be helpful to anyone else reading the thread.