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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:
player1 = {
idle = true;
jumping = false;
-- Et cetera
}
player2 = {
idle = true;
jumping = false;
-- You get the idea, hopefully.
}
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
local table1 = { 2, 1 }
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.
local table1 = {a = 2, b =1};
local table2 = {};
for key, val in next, table1 do -- For every key in table 1
table2[key] = val; -- Copy the key-value pair over to table 2
end
