Dynamic Table

['LinKin]

Hi,

I've a table like this:

myTable[1] = "1st Text"

myTable[2] = "2nd Text"

myTable[3] = "3rd Text"

myTable[4] = "4th Text"

myTable[5] = "5th Text"

Then, I add the event onClientRender to show the message that is in the first position of the table.

And after 5 seconds, I stop showing it.

But, after these 5 seconds, I also want to 'delete' the first position of the table, and move the other positions of it.

So it'd look like this:

myTable[1] = "2nd Text"

myTable[2] = "3rd Text"

myTable[3] = "4th Text"

myTable[4] = "5th Text"

So, the question is, what would happen to the 5th position of the table? Would it still occupate a memory's space?

[Castillo]

No, it'll be gone as far as I know.

['LinKin]

For example,

if I do myTable[1] = nil

and then I do table.insert(myTable, "some text"), would lua automatically place this in the 1st position of the table?

[WhoAmI]

table.remove(table, [pos]) -- position of value in table, for example 1'st position is 1st text 

[Castillo]

It'll be placed last if I'm right.

[Bonsai]

You can also provide a position on table.insert.