Re: Size of a non numerical indexed table

[Wim Couwenberg <wcou@...>]

> I'm fairly certain it was an interaction with varargs - attempts to 
> iterate over the arguments failed because the iterators stopped whenever 
> they encountered a nil argument.

the ipairs generator will stop at the first nil.  To safely iterate over 
all arguments use:

    for i = 1, select("#", ...) do
	local a = select(i, ...)
        -- etc...
    end

or

    local arg = {...}
    for i = 1, select("#", ...) do
	local a = arg[i]
        -- etc...
    end

--
Wim