Re: Strings as Keys in table

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 05/06/2007 11:21, Eva Schmidt wrote:
> I have a table with tables inside indexed like that
[...]
> My problem now is that even if the table index exists already it is not 
> found if the function is called for the second time - so every time the 
> function is called the table will be newly created.

Can you provide a small _functional_ example showing the problem?

> So I think my problem is, that I have to index the table with the same 
> string object as before, not just with the same string.

No. What the Wiki says is that if you have the same string in two 
different parts of a script, they share the same object, ie. they point 
to the same internal buffer.

> Does anybody have an idea how to realize that as smart as possible? 
> Maybe some kind of a hash table ...?

Lua already hashes strings, that's how it sees strings are the same.

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