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DLL Talk / How to return the size of a LUA array?

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GatorHex

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Posted: 25th May 2007 16:34 Edited at: 25th May 2007 17:20

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Is there any way, or command, to return the size of the LUA array?

At the moment I can hard code it into the array file but it seems a bit clumsy if you add something to the bottom of an 2000 item array to have to scroll back to the beginning and change change the arraySize value to 2000.

I tried letting the program return arraySize + 1 to see if LUA returned a zero value I could use but it just bombs the DBP program out without an error.

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dark coder

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Posted: 31st May 2007 14:57

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LUA uses tables so there is no fixed index size, your best bet would be to store your index size if you're using an integer range or just do a loop through the table till you hit a nil value.