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When I run a for loop through it I get random items instead of it running in the order I declared it as.
Example:
Is it possible to fix this?
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When I run a for loop through it I get random items instead of it running in the order I declared it as.
Example:
Is it possible to fix this?
Sorry for double post the page got stuck loading and I didn't see a new topic created
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spawns={
"OCEAN",
"SHIT",
"PRINT",
"CLITR",
"CENTRE",
"SATANSVILLE"
}
for i=1,#spawns do
print(spawns[i])
end
Mora: Yeah well example to a few of those:1
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Yates: and @ Talented Doge: ipairs prints nothing since I first have to give them IDs but I don't know how 2× editiert, zuletzt 06.06.17 18:05:43
Mami Tomoe: You got it sorted that way because Lua tables are half arrays/half hash maps. When you use strings you're placing data on the hash part, and the library is going to try to place them in a position where the accessing is more efficient.@
Yates: IIRC, ipairs is for numerical indices.@
Mami Tomoe: I suggest you declare the order in another table.MAP.ORDER = {"OCEAN", "DESERT", "MARBLE", "SNOW", ...} And then use it to iterate over the other table.
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for _, k in pairs(MAP.ORDER) do local v = MAP.SPAWNS[k] print(k, v) end
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Mami Tomoe: Now I've realized, are these strings contained in a table with numerical indices? Could you show the complete table MAP.SPAWNS? I can only see words that don't seem to be strings. 1
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spawns={
"OCEAN",
"SHIT",
"PRINT",
"CLITR",
"CENTRE",
"SATANSVILLE"
}
It's equivalent to
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spawns={
[1] = "OCEAN",
[2] = "SHIT",
[3] = "PRINT",
[4] = "CLITR",
[5] = "CENTRE",
[6] = "SATANSVILLE"
}
print(spawns[2])
This will ALWAYS print "SHIT" - with the first and the second way to declare it.
Mora already posted a way to iterate an array in Lua. It's the good old loop with index variable:1
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for i=1,#spawns do print(spawns[i]) end
I don't get what your "reserved" stuff is about.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/TablesTutorial
Tables as arrays sectionYou probably change your table somehow at at some place if you get different orders with this method.
What you shared with me has a completely different structure from what you posted here.
@everyone: what he actually has looks more like
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SPAWNS = {
OCEAN = { ... stuff ... },
DESERT = { ... stuff ... },
MARBLE = { ... stuff ... },
....
}
I would suggest this notation:
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SPAWNS = {
{ name="OCEAN", ... stuff ... },
{ name="DESERT", ... stuff ... },
{ name="MARBLE", ... stuff ... },
....
}
Then you should still be able to iterate with proper order and you can use .name to get the name of an entry.
Other solutions might be better though. It really depends on how you want to access the stuff.
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