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