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Dzsozi: Rephrased the purpose of the function to be a more straightforward explanation.

2024-03-04T21:22:16Z

Rephrased the purpose of the function to be a more straightforward explanation.

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	This function ~~create~~ table containing ~~variables and their~~ values.		This function performs a search in a given table and returns a new table containing the values of specified variable name strings.
	==Syntax==		==Syntax==
	<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">		<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">

GalAnonim at 23:21, 7 May 2022

2022-05-07T23:21:52Z

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	~~'''Author:''' @FroPop~~

	This function create table containing variables and their values.		This function create table containing variables and their values.
	==Syntax==		==Syntax==
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	==Code==		==Code==
	~~<section name="Author: @FroPop" class="both" show="true">~~
	<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">		<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
	function compact(g, ...)		function compact(g, ...)
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	end		end
	</syntaxhighlight>		</syntaxhighlight>
	~~</section>~~

	==Example==		==Example==
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	</section>		</section>

			'''Author:''' @FroPop

GalAnonim: Created page with "{{Useful Function}} NOTOC '''Author:''' @FroPop This function create table containing variables and their values. ==Syntax== table compact(table Array, table/string Variable) ===Required Arguments=== * '''Array:''' the table handles it recursively. *'''Variable''': table or string takes a variable number of parameters. Each parameter can be either a string containing the n..."

2022-05-07T23:17:02Z

Created page with "{{Useful Function}} <lowercasetitle></lowercasetitle> __NOTOC__ '''Author:''' @FroPop This function create table containing variables and their values. ==Syntax== <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> table compact(table Array, table/string Variable) </syntaxhighlight> ===Required Arguments=== * '''Array:''' the table handles it recursively. *'''Variable''': table or string takes a variable number of parameters. Each parameter can be either a string containing the n..."

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{{Useful Function}}
<lowercasetitle></lowercasetitle>
__NOTOC__
'''Author:''' @FroPop

This function create table containing variables and their values.
==Syntax==
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
table compact(table Array, table/string Variable)
</syntaxhighlight>
===Required Arguments===
* '''Array:''' the [[table]] handles it recursively.
*'''Variable''': [[table]] or [[string]] takes a variable number of parameters. Each parameter can be either a string containing the name of the variable, or an array of variable names. The array can contain other arrays of variable names inside it.
===Returns===
Returns the output [[table]] with all the variables added to it.

==Code==
<section name="Author: @FroPop" class="both" show="true">
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
function compact(g, ...)
local args = {...}
local tbl = {}
g = g or _G
for i, v in ipairs(args) do
for w in string.gmatch(v, "[%w_]+") do
tbl[v] = g[w]
end
end
return tbl
end
</syntaxhighlight>
</section>

==Example==
<section name="Shared Function" class="both" show="true">
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">

-- AND FORMAT FUNCTION --- With EXEMPLE
function format(s, tab)
return (s:gsub('($%b{})', function(w) return tab[w:sub(3, -2)] or w end))
end

function compact(g, ...)
local args = {...}
local tbl = {}
g = g or _G
for i, v in ipairs(args) do
for w in string.gmatch(v, "[%w_]+") do
tbl[v] = g[w]
end
end
return tbl
end

function testCompact()
local tbl = {
firstname = "Peter",
lastname = "Griffin",
age = 41
}
return format("My lastname is ${lastname} and age its ${age}", compact(tbl, "lastname",'age'))
end

outputChatBox( testCompact() )

</syntaxhighlight>
</section>