How to add something to a table?
I'm making some admin commands, and to add the :admin me command, I need to know how to add something to a table (because I use a table for my admin) Anyone know how?
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To add something to a table you have a few choices:
1 | array = {} --Make a table |
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3 | table.insert(array,1,"Value") --To add in a specific spot |
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5 | --or |
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7 | array[Value] = "Value2" --Add a specific value |
to test this you can write:
1 | print(array[1]) |
Output:
1 | >Value |
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1 | print(array[Value]) |
Output
1 | >Value2 |
References: Table manipulation Tables
I've heard a lot that table.insert is actually slower than:
1 | tab = {3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 12} -- 6 items |
2 | tab[#tab + 1] = 5 |
3 | print(tab[7]) -- print 7th item of tab |
Output:
5
Why does this happen?
tab = {3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 12} has 6 items/elements in it.
at this point if we printed
print(#tab) we would get 6
tab[#tab] would access the 6th item in tab which is 12, because #(table) returns the amount of items/elements in a table, which is currently 6.
BUT..
1 | tab[#tab + 1] = 5 |
This would get the amount of elements/items in our tab table which is 6 and then add 1 to that, and then make that element 5.
This would make the table:
1 | tab = {3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 12, 5} |
This is why it happens.