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[Smiley43210]

Hey guys,

Is there any way to call a function using a table for arguments? The number of arguments can change depending on user input. For example, if a table is set up as { "edit", "myFile" }, I want to call shell.run() with the table values as the arguments. Another example: the table is { "myFile", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3" }. I would need to call shell.run("myFile", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3"). Since the number of arguments needed can change, hardcoding

local var1 = myTable[1]
local var2 = myTable[2]

and so on wouldn't be efficient. How can I do this?

[Lyqyd]

unpack(). `shell.run(unpack(myTable))`

Also, the shell no longer requires individual arguments--it will take the whole command string in the first argument just fine. You could therefor use table.concat too, if you wanted.

[Smiley43210]

Ah, thanks! Also, good to know about shell.run; it's much simpler.

Edit: I also just remembered loadstring(), but the above works just fine.