2 Questions

[Karoffe]

First question is:

for k, player in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do 
outputChatBox(getPlayerName(player)) 

in that example it will loop through every player.. how could i make it just loop 1 time and outputs it like that for example "playername1 playername2 playername3"

Second question is:

I remember i saw a loop like that

for index in ipairs(table) do 

what is that used for ?

[Bonsai]

Instead of outputting it directly, you could just add the player names to a string and output it after that loop.

[Karoffe]

Instead of outputting it directly, you could just add the player names to a string and output it after that loop.

an example please ?

"add the player names to a string" How's that ?

local name = name ..getPlayerName(player) 

???

[Bonsai]

Well, try it

But don't use local inside the loop.

[Karoffe]

Yea, Worked, what about the other question ?

[IIYAMA]

local theSupermarket = { 
    "oranges",  -- index 1 
    "apples",   -- index 2 
    "cheese",   -- index 3 
    "pizza",    -- index 4 
} 
  
  
  
for index,content in ipairs(theSupermarket) do  
     
    outputChatBox("The index is: " .. index .. ", the content is: " .. content .. ", bon appetit!") 
end 

[Karoffe]

Yes, i know that..

I mean what if the table looks like that ?

for index in ipairs(table) do

[IIYAMA]

if you want to use "table" which contains all table functions, you need to loop with pairs instead of ipairs. (table doesn't have a array)

  
for index,data in pairs(table) do 
outputChatBox(index .. " " .. tostring(data)) 
end 

remove function: 0x421580 
maxn function: 0x4219a0 
insert function: 0x421800 
concat function: 0x421ac0 
pack function: 0x421900 
unpack function: 0x4216b0 
sort function: 0x4214f0 
  

Will return all table functions + index.

So now you know where the "unpack" function comes from.

value1,value2,value3 = table.unpack(myTable) 
value1,value2,value3 = table["unpack"](myTable)