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Is there a way to condense this code?
I'm creating a multiplayer game that allows multiple characters to be controlled by the same keyboard (Super Smash Brothers, essentially). As a result, I have the same set of variables for each character, and my code looks like this:
01 | player1 = { |
02 | idle = true; |
03 | jumping = false; |
04 | -- Et cetera |
05 | } |
06 |
07 | player2 = { |
08 | idle = true; |
09 | jumping = false; |
10 | -- You get the idea, hopefully. |
11 | } |
How might I be able to create the same effect without taking up a ton of script space? I would assume that for loops are the way to go, but is there any other way of doing it?
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You could do like gskw said or also do
1 | local table1 = { 2, 1 } |
2 | local table2 = { unpack(table1) } |
which is essentially the same thing but stands in a single line.
Note however that if table1 contains non-numerical indexes, they will be lost.
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You can do this using a very basic for loop, i.e.
1 | local table1 = {a = 2, b =1}; |
2 | local table2 = {}; |
3 |
4 | for key, val in next, table1 do -- For every key in table 1 |
5 | table2[key] = val; -- Copy the key-value pair over to table 2 |
6 | end |
