Roblox Lua Pairs
Additionally to avoid all metamethods use the.
Roblox lua pairs. Pairs vs ipairs by marcus december 15 2011 in programming. Marcus 15 marcus 15 members. For instance adding players to a dictionary when they join the game and then starting them off with 0 points. Function table pairs table t returns an iterator function the passed table t and nil so that the.
Next is another iterator function pairs actually calla this function every iteration. Userdata newproxy bool addmetatable false creates a blank userdata. Type the name of the dictionary followed by the name of the key in brackets. 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.
In part 13 we learn about pairs and ipairs also known as generic for loop. Playerpointsname on the same line set the value. In this series dr. From what i can tell ipairs seems to be more useful for iterating.
Local next next local k nexttab while k nil do tabk nil k nexttab k end edit. Youll often need to add key value pairs to an existing dictionary. Adding key value pairs. So i finally decided to truly learn lua and im a little bit confused.
This function is a stateless iterator it will not retain any information about the last iteration in the memory. Reply to this topic. Unlike standard lua 51 robloxs lua cannot load the binary version of lua using loadstring. For a faster version that ignores the pairs metamethod.
Posted december 15 2011. Brian burton walks through the basics of using lua.