table.remove with Arrays

Happywalker

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#182937591Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:48 PM GMT

lol, how? c; Currently just doing tab[str] = nil

fixylol

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#182937634Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:50 PM GMT

table.remove(tablename,tablenum) i dont think it works with table values Number of times opinion has changed: A lot.

Happywalker

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#182937655Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:51 PM GMT

Well what if u don't know the index

fixylol

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#182937701Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:52 PM GMT

you can get the index by doing this: for i,v in pairs(tab) do if tab[i] == str then table.remove(tab,i) end end atleast i think thats how you can get it Number of times opinion has changed: A lot.

x_o

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#182937708Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:53 PM GMT

yeah tab[str] = nil should work "remotes? you must be a comedian" ~ dermon

Happywalker

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#182937727Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:53 PM GMT

But table.remove only accepts number indexes

MyDominus

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#182937752Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:54 PM GMT

loop through it then and check if val == value then index = i table.remove(table,index)

fixylol

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#182937754Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:54 PM GMT

@happywalker "i" is the table index to my knowledge Number of times opinion has changed: A lot.

Happywalker

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#182937904Wednesday, February 03, 2016 5:59 PM GMT

Yes that's right Last time I looped through my table and got the string index and then table.removed using it it errorred, now it works lol I guess it was just something else that time. Thanks anyways ;)

morashsPeasant

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#182938184Wednesday, February 03, 2016 6:08 PM GMT

If your index is a string, or ANYTHING else, just go table[index] = nile