table.copy - target defined by a string

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have a table like this:

local tableofObjectTables = {  } tableofObjectTables["a"] = "aObjects" tableofObjectTables["b"] = "bObjects" tableofObjectTables["c"] = "cObjects" tableofObjectTables["d"] = "dObjects"

aObject etc are all tables defined elsewhere. I want to copy the corresponding table depending on what letter a variable is. I’ve tried the following:

local selectedLetter = "a"  local tabletoCopy1 = tableofObjectTables[selectedLetter]  activeObjects = table.copy(tabletoCopy1)

I have also tried using “shallow copy” function in the lua documentation:

function shallowcopy(orig)     local orig\_type = type(orig)     local copy     if orig\_type == 'table' then         copy = {}         for orig\_key, orig\_value in pairs(orig) do             copy[orig\_key] = orig\_value         end     else -- number, string, boolean, etc         copy = orig     end     return copy end

local selectedLetter = "a" shallowcopy(tableofObjectTables[selectedLetter])

In this case the string “aObject” is returned.

Thank you.

#2

Problem solved. I changed it to this:

local tableNameToCopy = tableofObjectTables[selectedLetter] activeObjects = table.copy(\_G[tableNameToCopy])
#3

Problem solved. I changed it to this:

local tableNameToCopy = tableofObjectTables[selectedLetter] activeObjects = table.copy(\_G[tableNameToCopy])