How do i get the index of the array when i have the elements?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Let say i have 5 enemy sprite in local Enemy = {}.I Enemy[i].sprite:addEventListener() to all the 5 sprites. I have the event.target generated by the event listener. how am i going to find which index does the event.target belongs to? [import]uid: 40786 topic_id: 24108 reply_id: 324108[/import]

#2

The lua ‘table’ has an ‘indexOf’ function which tells you the array index of an object within that table:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/tableindexof

However, if you want to find the index of a display object within a display group you could use the ‘indexOf’ function from my display extensions library:

https://developer.anscamobile.com/code/display-extensions [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 24108 reply_id: 97271[/import]