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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:17 am    Post subject: From 0 or 1 start? Reply with quote

The initial value of the array from 0 or 1 from the beginning?
form 0
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
for i=0,#a do
print(a[i])
end

it prints
1
2
3


from 1
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
for i=1,#a do
print(a[i])
end

it also prints
1
2
3

i am comfused,,,

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
for i=0,#a do
  print(type(a[i]))
  print(tostring(a[i]))
end


Quote:
nil
nil
number
1
number
2
number
3


And
Code:
print(nil)

Quote:



You just missed the blank line is all.

Some more on print:
Code:
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
print(tostring(a))

Quote:
table: 0000000007276330


Code:
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
print(a)

Quote:



Use the "type" and "tostring" functions when debugging/testing.

For a "short hand" of sorts I do some thing like this.
Code:
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
print(1, a)

Quote:
1


Code:
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)
for i=0,#a do
  print(i, a[i])
end

Quote:
0
1 1
2 2
3 3

This just always gives you some thing on each line and then you can change the numbers and investigate as needed.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

also check table length

Code:
a={1,2}
table.insert(a,3)

local count = 0
for _ in pairs(a) do count = count + 1 end
return count
print(count)

for k,v in pairs(a) do  print(k, v) end

-- result
3
1 1
2 2
3 3

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

when creating your own tables don't put stuff at index 0, reason:

Code:
sometable = {}
sometable[0] = "Catch me if you can! ~Frank Abagnale Jr."
sometable[#sometable+1] = "First!" -- #sometable = 0, thus 1
sometable[#sometable+1] = "Second"
sometable[#sometable+1] = "Third..."

for k,v in ipairs(sometable) do
  print(k,v)
end
--print(sometable[0])
result:
Code:
1 First!
2 Second
3 Third...


Same with pairs except it'll work with non-number indexes and it's not guaranteed to be ordered (or even have the same order each time when no changes have been made).

Though if you're using the lua engine window to test you can simply return the table rather than looping over it and get
Code:
:table
[
   1 = First!
   2 = Second
   3 = Third...
   0 = Catch me if you can! ~Frank Abagnale Jr.
]
up to about 10 entries... (for more than that you'd need to loop manually, or create some serialization function).

Or for personal debugging use you can add something like https://github.com/pkulchenko/serpent to the autorun list (you'll likely need to modify the module so instead of returning a table it sets a global variable) then you could do
Code:
print(serpent.block(sometable),'\r\n')
print(serpent.line(sometable),'\r\n')
print(serpent.dump(sometable),'\r\n')
and get
Code:
{
  "First!",
  "Second",
  "Third...",
  0,
  1,
  2,
  3,
  4,
  5,
  6,
  7,
  8,
  9,
  10,
  11,
  12,
  13,
  14,
  15,
  16,
  17,
  18,
  19,
  20,
  21,
  22,
  23,
  24,
  25,
  26,
  27,
  28,
  29,
  30,
  [0] = "Catch me if you can! ~Frank Abagnale Jr."
} --[[table: 0000000004C717E0]]
 
{"First!", "Second", "Third...", 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, [0] = "Catch me if you can! ~Frank Abagnale Jr."} --[[table: 0000000004C717E0]]
 
do local _={[1]="First!",[2]="Second",[3]="Third...",[4]=0,[5]=1,[6]=2,[7]=3,[8]=4,[9]=5,[10]=6,[11]=7,[12]=8,[13]=9,[14]=10,[15]=11,[16]=12,[17]=13,[18]=14,[19]=15,[20]=16,[21]=17,[22]=18,[23]=19,[24]=20,[25]=21,[26]=22,[27]=23,[28]=24,[29]=25,[30]=26,[31]=27,[32]=28,[33]=29,[34]=30,[0]="Catch me if you can! ~Frank Abagnale Jr."};return _;end


edit: actually that first one doesn't get new lines in the output but that's probably because it wants \r\n not just \n... could probably modify that in the serpent file or use gsub before printing Smile

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheyCallMeTim13 wrote:
[code]a={1,2}



tks,i know

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