Manual:Table Functions - Revision history

Zooka: /* spairs */

2026-04-18T02:56:06Z

spairs

2025-09-21T10:57:47Z

table.concat: Signature should indicate optional parameters

2025-05-07T18:44:06Z

table.save

2025-05-07T18:25:25Z

table.save

2024-05-23T04:53:05Z

table.index_of

2023-12-07T09:27:51Z

table.remove

2023-08-12T17:50:50Z

grammer

2023-04-07T14:03:04Z

Make table.index_of easier to find

2023-04-02T17:00:44Z

table.contains: Layout

2023-04-02T15:04:19Z

table.contains

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    -- If you replace the < with a > it will go from most full to least full instead.
 end
 </syntaxhighlight>

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 ==table.concat==
-;table.concat(table, delimiter, startingindex, endingindex)
+;table.concat(table, [delimiter], [startingindex], [endingindex])
 : Joins a table into a string. Each item must be something which can be transformed into a string.
 : Returns the joined string.

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 </syntaxhighlight>
-{{note}} If the file does not exist it will be created, however if the path (directories) specified do not exist, an error will be thrown.
+{{note}} If the file does not exist it will be created, however if the path (directories) specified do not exist, an error will be thrown. For both linux and windows
 ==table.sort==

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 table.save(getMudletHomeDir().."/mytable.lua", mytable)
 </syntaxhighlight>
 ==table.sort==
 ;table.sort(Table [, comp])

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 ; Parameters
 * '''table:'''
-: The table in which you are inserting the value
+: The table in which you are searching the value
 * '''value:'''
 : The variable that you are searching for in the table.

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 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
 testTable = { test = "testing", go = "boom", frown = "glow" }
-table.remove(testTable, test) -- this will error
+table.remove(testTable, "test") -- this will error
 testTable.test = nil -- won't error
 testTable["test"] = nil -- won't error

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 ;Examples
 <syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
---it will inserts what inside the variable of matches[2] into at the end of table of 'test_db_name'.
+--it will insert whats inside the variable of matches[2] into at the end of table of 'test_db_name'.
 table.insert(test_db_name, matches[2])
---it will inserts other thing at the first position of this table.
+--it will insert other thing at the first position of this table.
 table.insert(test_db_name, 1, "jgcampbell300")

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 ==table.index_of==
 ; table.index_of(table, value)
-Returns the index (location) of an item in an indexed table, or '''nil''' if it's not found.
+Returns the index (location) of an item in an indexed table, or '''nil''' if it's not found. Think of it as a table.find function (although it is called table.index_of).
 ; Parameters

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 : Determines if a table contains a value as a key or as a value (recursive as of Mudlet 4.8+).
 : Returns true or false
-: See also: [[Manual:Lua_Functions#table.index_of|table.index_of]]
-{{note}} This tests for the 'value' parameter as either a '''key''' or '''value''' in the table. this means table.contains({"Bob"}, 1) will return true.
+; See also: [[Manual:Lua_Functions#table.index_of|table.index_of]]
 ; Parameters