gvre / lua-gtable

lua-gtable

A small helper library about tables (WIP).

Installation

Copy the file src/gtable.lua to your project.

Methods

• gtable.merge(object:table, object:table):object:table
  Merges the two tables and returns a new one

• gtable.prepend(object:table, object:table):object:table
  Prepends the values of the second table to the first one

• gtable.append(object:table, object:table):object:table
  Appends the values of the second table to the first one

• gtable.is_table(object:table):boolean
  Checks if the given parameter is a table

• gtable.is_empty(object:table):boolean
  Checks if the given parameter is an empty table

• gtable.key_exists(object:table, key:string):boolean
  Checks if the given parameter exists as a key in the given table

• gtable.find(object:table, v, start:int):int|boolean
  Searches the table for a given value and returns the first corresponding key if successful

• gtable.reverse(object:table):object:table
  Reverses the table

• gtable.filter(object:table, callback:function):object:table
  Returns a new table with all values that pass the callback filter function

• gtable.filter_map(object:table, callback:function):object:table
  Returns a new table with all keys and values that pass the callback filter function

Testing

Run make to lint and test the code (you need luacheck and luaunit)