Re: question about table elements

[Andrew Teirney <andrew@...>]

[snip]

> tmp = t2.x
> print(tmp)     --> a
> print(t1.tmp)  --> nil
>
> -- end example --
>
> How could I achieve the goal of using the value stored in 't2.x' to
> access 't1.a'?  I suspect I'm overlooking something simple and would
> appreciate any advice you may offer.

I think you will find that if you do the following it will give what you 
want

print(t1[tmp])

This will access the member of the t1 table with the value of tmp, the 
state t1.tmp is syntactic sugar for t1['tmp'], which is access the 
member who key is the string "tmp".

Hope this helps.

Andrew.