From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: Merging two lua tables
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:10:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aec42127-a13f-15d0-46dd-94997f0f11b0@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAJKhDU9wcgBUViksinPw52U6aYOwQ6M=GxTLgTTN8qXmgCig@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/29/2022 7:33 PM, BPJ via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use the attached Lua function to merge array, map and mixed tables alike
> (but differently! :-) The trick is to check if each key is numeric or not,
> append if it is and overwrite if it isn't.
you really want something like this then:
local tab = table.pack(...)
local rv = {}
> This function just ignores non-table arguments because that is what I
> usually want. You may want to throw an error instead. Also it uses
> table.pack. You might need to use `tab = {...}` and ipairs, or implement
> pack:
I might add table.himerged (hash and index) but slightly different (and
some 30% faster) to util-tab but i think merging mixed hash/indexed
tables is rare.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-29 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-29 12:20 Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2022-08-29 12:29 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2022-08-29 17:33 ` BPJ via ntg-context
2022-08-29 18:10 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2022-08-30 8:56 ` BPJ via ntg-context
2022-08-30 10:08 ` BPJ via ntg-context
2022-08-29 14:28 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-08-30 5:52 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
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