sidescroller-framework

LUA Table Library Extensions

SFramework expands upon some of the built-in LUA table library functionality. Here, you can find reference for these additions.

Contents

• table
  • indexOf
  • length

table

table.indexOf

Returns the index of the given value in the given table, or 0 if not found

Arguments

• t - table (required) the table to search in
• val - any (required) the value to check for

  Example

  local myTable = {2, 5, 4, 7, 1}
  local index = table.indexOf(myTable, 4) --should return 3
  

table.length

Returns the length of the given table. This will work for both arrays and keyed tables

Arguments

• t - table (required) the table to get the length of

  Example

  ```lua local myArrayTable = {2, 5, 4, 7, 1} local arrayLength = table.length(myArrayTable) –should return 5

local myKeyedTable = {x = 1, y = 2} local tableLength = table.length(myKeyedTable) –should return 2 ```

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