Roblox Lua Pairs
Youll often need to add key value pairs to an existing dictionary.
Roblox lua pairs. Posted december 15 2011. From what i can tell ipairs seems to be more useful for iterating. Pairs vs ipairs by marcus december 15 2011 in programming. In this series dr.
The next method and the table itself. As atsiffiejoe mentions in the comments this can be simplified back into a for loop by replacing the pairs call with its default return value for tables. Adding key value pairs. Unlike standard lua 51 robloxs lua cannot load the binary version of lua using loadstring.
Pairs and ipairs are functions that can be used with a for loop to go through each element of an array or dictionary without needing to set starting or ending pointspairs is used with dictionaries and ipairs is used with arraysthe i in ipairs stands for index. For instance adding players to a dictionary when they join the game and then starting them off with 0 points. Next is another iterator function pairs actually calla this function every iteration. Userdata newproxy bool addmetatable false creates a blank userdata.
So i finally decided to truly learn lua and im a little bit confused. Brian burton walks through the basics of using lua. Function table pairs table t returns an iterator function the passed table t and nil so that the. Local next next local k nexttab while k nil do tabk nil k nexttab k end edit.
Additionally to avoid all metamethods use the. Playerpointsname on the same line set the value. Reply to this topic. For a faster version that ignores the pairs metamethod.
Marcus 15 marcus 15 members. This function is a stateless iterator it will not retain any information about the last iteration in the memory.