I need some LUA tables examples.

[Hermes]

Hi there!

5 minutes ago I realised, that I suck at advanced tables, so I have few questions to you, OTLanders!

1. How should look like ordinary table, which will work like:

local table = [object1, object2, object3]
local something = object2
if something == "one of items from table" then
doBroadcastMessage("Object matches to one of items from table.", MESSAGE_STATUS_CONSOLE_ORANGE)
elseif something == "is not one of the items in table" then
doBroadcastMessage("Sorry, object doesn't match any of items in table.", MESSAGE_STATUS_CONSOLE_ORANGE)
end

2. How I can add values to table after defining it?
For example:

local table = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
if something == something then
"add to table value 6"
"replace in table value 1 to 7"
end

3. I saw that someone was using function (to do something with tables ) "isInArray". How this function exactly works? And what's it's general purpose and usage?

Thanks in advance, Hermes

 

[slaw]

1.
isInArray(array, value)

for example:

local someThing = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

if(isInArray(someThing, 3) == TRUE) then -- true

2.
local testTable = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

table.insert(testTable, 6)
testTable[1] = 7

 

[Hermes]

Yeah, thanks! (however I can't add you rep+ every 5 min xD)

 

[slaw]

Yeah thats a really bad feature ;///