Re: Inserting a key and value into a dictionary

[Graham Henstridge <graham@...>]

Hi

Sorry, I have a very red face. Thank you all for the help.

Graham


On 17/05/2006, at 10:08 PM, Richard Simes wrote:

> You have a few options, but basically you just index the table and
> make an assignment.
> I'll show examples below:
>
> -- create a new table
> t = {"cat", "dog", 1, 2}
>
> t[5] = "hello" -- adds a new string at index 5
>
> t["key"] = "value" -- adds a value with a string key
>
> or, a shorthand of this is:
>
> t.key = "value"
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Richard