Come to think of it you may also want to check that numeric indices are
indeed positive integers before appending their value. I usually don't
because their not being so is rare.
Den tis 30 aug. 2022 10:56BPJ
Den mån 29 aug. 2022 20:13Hans Hagen via ntg-context
skrev: 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 = {}
Thanks. I was manually translating from MoonScript (https://moonscript.org) where variables are local by default.
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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