Problem on ipairs

[WASSIm.]

hi guys i have problem if use pairs its working but if use ipairs don't working on loop

premissons = {  
  
    ["Founder"] = { 
        ["info"] = true,  
        ["mote"] = true,  
        ["kick"] = true,  
        ["warn"] = true,  
        ["withdraw"] = true,  
        ["deposit"] = true,  
        ["color"] = true,  
        ["logs"] = true,  
        ["invite"] = true 
        }, 
         
    ["Leader"] = { 
        ["info"] = true,  
        ["mote"] = true,  
        ["kick"] = true,  
        ["warn"] = true,  
        ["withdraw"] = false,  
        ["deposit"] = true,  
        ["color"] = true,  
        ["logs"] = true,  
        ["invite"] = true 
        }, 
         
    ["Senior"] = { 
        ["info"] = false,  
        ["mote"] = true,  
        ["kick"] = true,  
        ["warn"] = true,  
        ["withdraw"] = false,  
        ["deposit"] = true,  
        ["color"] = false,  
        ["logs"] = false,  
        ["invite"] = true 
        }, 
         
    ["Regular"] = { 
        ["info"] = false,  
        ["mote"] = false,  
        ["kick"] = false,  
        ["warn"] = false,  
        ["withdraw"] = false,  
        ["deposit"] = true,  
        ["color"] = false,  
        ["logs"] = false,  
        ["invite"] = false 
        }, 
         
    ["New"] = { 
        ["info"] = false,  
        ["mote"] = false,  
        ["kick"] = false,  
        ["warn"] = false,  
        ["withdraw"] = false,  
        ["deposit"] = true,  
        ["color"] = false,  
        ["logs"] = false,  
        ["invite"] = false 
        }, 
         
    ["Trial"] = { 
        ["info"] = false,  
        ["mote"] = false,  
        ["kick"] = false,  
        ["warn"] = false,  
        ["withdraw"] = false,  
        ["deposit"] = true,  
        ["color"] = false,  
        ["logs"] = false,  
        ["invite"] = false 
        } 
    } 
     
    for rank, premisson in ipairs(premissons) do 
        outputChatBox(rank) 
        outputChatBox("aaa") 
    end 

[cheez3d]

Of course ipairs isn't working.

Unlike pairs, it only gives you the consecutive integer keys from 1, and it guarantees their order.

[WASSIm.]

if use pairs its show me random. this what show me on chat

Trial

Founder

Regular

New

Leader

Senior

Edited April 21, 2014 by Guest

[novo]

Use something like this instead:

  
ranks = {"Founder", "Leader", "Senior", "Regular", "New", "Trial"} 
  
premissons = { 
  
    ["Founder"] = { 
        ["info"] = true, 
        ["mote"] = true, 
        ["kick"] = true, 
        ["warn"] = true, 
        ["withdraw"] = true, 
        ["deposit"] = true, 
        ["color"] = true, 
        ["logs"] = true, 
        ["invite"] = true 
        }, 
        
    ["Leader"] = { 
        ["info"] = true, 
        ["mote"] = true, 
        ["kick"] = true, 
        ["warn"] = true, 
        ["withdraw"] = false, 
        ["deposit"] = true, 
        ["color"] = true, 
        ["logs"] = true, 
        ["invite"] = true 
        }, 
        
    ["Senior"] = { 
        ["info"] = false, 
        ["mote"] = true, 
        ["kick"] = true, 
        ["warn"] = true, 
        ["withdraw"] = false, 
        ["deposit"] = true, 
        ["color"] = false, 
        ["logs"] = false, 
        ["invite"] = true 
        }, 
        
    ["Regular"] = { 
        ["info"] = false, 
        ["mote"] = false, 
        ["kick"] = false, 
        ["warn"] = false, 
        ["withdraw"] = false, 
        ["deposit"] = true, 
        ["color"] = false, 
        ["logs"] = false, 
        ["invite"] = false 
        }, 
        
    ["New"] = { 
        ["info"] = false, 
        ["mote"] = false, 
        ["kick"] = false, 
        ["warn"] = false, 
        ["withdraw"] = false, 
        ["deposit"] = true, 
        ["color"] = false, 
        ["logs"] = false, 
        ["invite"] = false 
        }, 
        
    ["Trial"] = { 
        ["info"] = false, 
        ["mote"] = false, 
        ["kick"] = false, 
        ["warn"] = false, 
        ["withdraw"] = false, 
        ["deposit"] = true, 
        ["color"] = false, 
        ["logs"] = false, 
        ["invite"] = false 
        } 
    } 
    
    for _, rank in ipairs(ranks) do 
        outputChatBox(rank) 
        for name,value in pairs(premissons[rank]) do 
            outputChatBox(name.." => "..tostring(value)) 
        end 
    end 
  

[WASSIm.]

thank i was make like this, but why its show random keys ?

[manawydan]

try

use pairs

[Castillo]

try

use pairs

He's already using it.

@WASSIm: It's random because "pairs" doesn't loop the table in order.

[WASSIm.]

ok thanks guys anyway i do what show me novo

[.:HyPeX:.]

if you want a better explanation of what novo did, its "indexing tables", basically, any indexed table is that one that doesnt has any "name" definition or variable, its just like a table:

  
table = {name = "jose", jose = "etc"} 
  

Thats an unindexed table becouse it has variables, and you cant get numbers straight, therefore ipairs wont work.

In this case you call: table.name to get "jose".

  
table = {"jose", "etc"} 
  

Thats an indexed table, becouse it has not variables, just values. therefore ipairs will work.

In this case as you dont have variables,but you do have a key to call them: Their position.

table[1] will return "jose", as you are calling position one in the table.

-- Not so easy:

  
table = { 
{"Jose", "Juan", "etc"}, 
{"Juane", "etc", "Jase"} 
} 
  

Now, we have a complex table (just to say its harder we call it complex). (About ordering, just remember the 2nd table inside table "table" is the last value of table "table", so it actually ends like: {"juane", "etc", "Jase"}} )

Here, it is still an indexed table, and we can still call the values by key, but how?

For an unindexed table you would probably do: table.table1.name

Here, keys still work: table[1][1] will return Position 1 from a "supposed" table to be in position 1 of table "table", else if positon 1 from table is not a table it will return an error trying to index '?'. (nil value)

Also, we can manage to loop them!

  
table = { 
{"Jose", "Juan", "etc"}, 
{"Juane", "etc", "Jase"} 
} 
for i=1, #table[1] do 
outputChatBox(table[1][i]) 
end 
  

This will give: "Jose", "Juan", "etc"

Now what about a complex indexed/unindexed table?

  
table = { 
{"Jose", "Juan", "etc"}, 
{name = "Juane", etc = "etc", name2 = "Jase"} 
} 
for i=1, #table[1] do 
outputChatBox(table[1][i]) 
end 
for i,v in pairs(table[2]) do 
outputChatBox(i.." "..v) 
end 
  

This will output first the values before: "Jose", "Juan", "etc"

But we now made the second table unindexed, the first one is still indexed, so it works, but the second one it is not, so ipairs will no longer work. In this case, pairs will return the following values in a random position:

name Juan

etc etc

name2 Jase

So we can basically have huge combinations and huge tables, wich in the end, its amazing.

Hope this is usefull for you.

Greets

HyPeX