Re: Storing User Input in Tables/Arrays

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Jorge Eduardo de Araújo Oliveira once stated:
> Hi, guys!
> 
> I know it sounds noob, but it's noob !! LOL!
> I'm studing Lua Programming for a few weeks...
> 
> The question is:
> How do I store user input in a table/array?
> 
> For example, information from a school report card:
> 
> Name Grade_1 Grade_2 Average_Grade
> 
> John    7.0        8.0             7.5
> 
> I'm worried about this.
> Thanks a lot for the help!

  I would arrange for the data to be stored as:

  data =
  {
    { name = "John" , grades = { 7.0 , 8.0 } } ,
    { name = "Sean" , grades = { 7.1 , 7.9 , 6.9 , 8.1 } } ,
    { name = "Sion" , grades = { 6.9 , 8.1 , 8.0 } } ,
    { name = "Jean" , grades = { 7.0 , 8.2 , 7.5 } } ,
  }

  I would not include the average, but make a function to calculate it from
a list of grades.  

  -spc (Using an array for the grades is nice because it can be expanded to
	include more than just two grades)