Re: Newbie question on pairs and ipairs

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

Can you live with this:

	for k,v in pairs(tbl) do
		--
		if type(k)~="number" then
			...
		end
	end
	

16.12.2004 kello 07:59, Glenn Edgar kirjoitti:

 Hi
> The source code indicates that a lua table consists of two parts, an 
> array
> part and a hash table part.  It also appears that ipairs iterates over 
> the
> array part and pairs iterates over both the array and hash table part.
>
> If my understanding is correct, I would like to ask the following 
> question.
>
> What is the best way to iterate over the keys that are only in that 
> hash table
> part of the table?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Glenn Edgar