Re: Construct table from multiple values with named keys

[Patrick Rapin <toupie300@...>]

With Lua 5.2, we could use _ENV tricks.

But the following implementation is no shorter than the original, and
still requires a "local date = {}". It could be worthy if there are
plenty of fields to match to build the same table.

local date = {}
do
  local _ENV = date
  day, month, year = startdate:match("(%d%d)/(%d%d)/(%d%d%d%d)")
end
print(os.time(date))

A variation using a function call (maybe more readable):

local function parsedate(str)
  local _ENV = {}
  day, month, year = str:match("(%d%d)/(%d%d)/(%d%d%d%d)")
  return _ENV
end

print(os.time(parsedate(startdate)))