pack()
Published Sep 28, 2023
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The pack()
function takes multiple argument values, then returns a new table.
Syntax
table.pack(value1, value2, ..., valuen)
value1
,value2
,...
,valuen
: Each argument value will become an element in the new table.
Note: The
n
field is added when passing arguments to thepack()
function wheren
is the number of elements in the table. This field can called using the dot notation syntax. For example,cars.n
will return the number of elements in thecars
table. Remember that Lua table elements will begin with index 1, not 0.
Example
The following example uses the pack()
function to take multiple argument values like Watermelon
, Bananas
, Apple
, and Oranges
to create the table fruit
.
fruit = table.pack('Watermelon','Bananas','Apple','Oranges')print("Table: ",fruit)print("Fruit number 2:",fruit[2])print("Total number of fruit: ",fruit.n)
The example will result in an output similar to the following:
Table: table: 0x55b6ebb24400Fruit number 2: BananasTotal number of fruit: 4
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