Re: Table length operator

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 12 Mar 2008, at 15:23, Eva Schmidt wrote:
> So far, the only way to get a reliable information about the length  
> of a table is to iterate it by using for i,v in pairs (tbl) and  
> count the field by myself.

Correct.  But often it is sufficient to know if a table is empty or not:

next(tbl) == nil

will tell you that.

drj