Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-08-16 16:23 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:

> What would be most useful to me, would be if ipairs returned all numeric key
> / value pairs, in order, regardless of holes.

I can't see how implementing that in C would be possible in
a cleverer way than iterating over pairs and keeping what you
need. But the Lua extension I thought was off-topic would
do this for you:

   for k,v in pairs(tbl) if type(k)=='number' do
      ...
   end