Lua call for array size?

[+cantuland]

Is there a Lua Language call that can be used to find the number of items in an array?

 

For example, if I have an array called ArrayStuff and the contents are {apple, banana, carrot, desert}, I want to be able to do something like:

 

EndingNumber = NumberOfItemsInArray(ArrayStuff)

for x=1,NumberOfItemsInArray do

 

and have it go from x=1 to x=4, pulling the 4 out by counting the array items.

[+sTeamTraen]

Lua doesn't really have arrays, it has tables. This is imprtant since the index values can be anything, not just integers.

 

You can get the number of element in a table t with

# t

, but that doesn't help much if the index values are -47, 12, and "george.w.bush".

 

You can iterate over all the elements in t with:

for i,v in ipairs(t) do print(i,v) end

Each time round the loop i is the index and v is the value of the corresponding element.

[Ranger Fox]

To get an table's/array's length, I've always used

table.getn(myArray)

Seems to have worked fine for everything I've done so far. You'll see it done a lot in Whack-A-Lackey and some in Sadie's BiG Adventure.

[+cantuland]

Thanks bunches! Those will help me out.