What does the common, "for i = 1, #Table" for loop mean?
What does it mean?
I know exactly what it does but I have no idea what it actually means; what does i mean? Does it stand for something?
Example:
01 | local Value = 0 |
02 | local WorkspaceChildren = workspace:GetChildren() |
03 |
04 | for i = 1, #WorkspaceChildren do |
05 |
06 | local Child = WorkspaceChildren[i] |
07 | Value = Value + 1 |
08 |
09 | Child.Name = Value |
10 |
11 | end |
The code sets all the children of workspace to a number (which goes up in 1 every child).
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2 answers
The for loop has a beginning and an end number. For example (no pun intended)
1 | for i = 1, 10 do |
2 | print(i) |
3 | end -- Code made by Qub_lex |
It would loop through all numbers from 1 to 10 and print all of them.
The # means length or how many items there are in a table.
For example:
1 | local Fruits = {"Apple", "Banana", "Orange"} |
2 | print(#Fruits) |
Would return 3, because there are three items inside the table.
Edit: Just realised I didn't even answer your question. i is a placeholder variable that stands for "Integer" or sometimes "Index".
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i would be the current number the loop is at.
If you ran this in the command bar:
1 | for i = 1,10 do print(i) end |
The output would be counting up, as it keeps printing the current number (i) as the loop continued.
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