Just posted a tutorial about tables in Code Exchange because I was just using this functionality in my game and figured other people could take advantage of it too:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/tables-lua-dictionaries-and-arrays
Basically, I go over how to use tables in Lua as dictionaries (aka hash tables, aka associative arrays.) Most people understand how to use Lua tables like arrays in other programming languages, but tables can also be used like dictionaries which is a very powerful concept. [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 5419 reply_id: 305419[/import]
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