7 replies to this topic

[Micheal Pearce]

is it possible to doing a code like this and have it print what X is = to?

Test = {
T1 = {
   X = 1
   Y = 1
}
}
print(Test[T1[X]])

[Imque]

Yes but a better format is:

test = {
	T1 = {
	  X = 1,
	  Y = 2
	}
}

print(test.T1.X) -- Returns 2

You can even do this:

test = {
  [1] = {
    text = {
	  val1 = "Some"
    }
  }
}

print(test[1].text.val1) -- returns "Some"

[Micheal Pearce]

Thanks Man/Girl/Demon Baby

[superaxander]

Yuri, on 14 April 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:

Thanks Man/Girl/Demon Baby

Hmm I think it's a dog

On topic:
If you want to iterate trough the values thus might come in hand

for identifier, value in pairs(table) do
    print(tostring(identifier).." contains:"..tostring(value))
end

[diegodan1893]

Doing tostring(var) when printing isn't necessary, it will do it automatically for you.

[JokerRH]

diegodan1893, on 15 April 2013 - 06:54 AM, said:

Doing tostring(var) when printing isn't necessary, it will do it automatically for you.

You can only concatenate a string with a string (or a table with __concat metamethod)

[LordIkol]

JokerRH, on 15 April 2013 - 09:35 AM, said:

diegodan1893, on 15 April 2013 - 06:54 AM, said:

Doing tostring(var) when printing isn't necessary, it will do it automatically for you.

You can only concatenate a string with a string (or a table with __concat metamethod)

thats not true you can concatenate string and number without tostring. see Example:

a = 1
d = "1"
c = {1,"1"}
print("Number: " .. a)
print("String: " .. d)
print("both from a table " ..c[1]..c[2])

[theoriginalbit]

LordIkol, on 21 April 2013 - 12:17 AM, said:

thats not true you can concatenate string and number without tostring. see Example:
-snip-

that is because strings and numbers have __concat defined, booleans, tables and some others do not.