Hi, after searching up in pairs when I didn't know what it was in a generic for loop, I also came across ipairs . I assume it's short for in pairs but it doesn't seem to be right.
I hope someone can tell me whether ipairs = in pairs !
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I'm not sure whether ipairs is in pairs?
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No. "ipairs" does not stand for "in pairs".
"ipairs" is a variant of "pairs" and other generic loop operators.
The differences between "ipairs" and "pairs" is that "ipairs" will automatically break when it encounters a "nil" value in a table while "pairs" doesn't.
Take the following scripts as example.
local MyTable = {"Hello!", "How are you?", nil, "Goodbye!"}
for i,v in ipairs(MyTable) do
print(v)
end
Output:
Hello!
How are you?
Now onto "pairs"
local MyTable = {"Hello!", "How are you?", nil, "Goodbye!"}
for i,v in pairs(MyTable) do
print(v)
end
Output:
Hello!
How are you?
nil
Goodbye!
Hopefully this helped!
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