[NTG-context] Merging two lua tables

[Hans Hagen]

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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