table.concat
Lua function

table.concat

Summary

Concatenates table items together into a string

Prototype

s = table.concat (t, sep, start, end)


Description

Returns the (numeric) entries in the table t, concatenated together with "sep" as the separator, starting at index 'start' and ending at index 'end'. The entries are returned as a single string variable. Contrast this to the "unpack" function which returns a table as individual variables.

Start defaults to 1 and end the table size.
Sep defaults to an empty string.


t = { "the", "quick", "brown", "fox" }
print (table.concat (t, ';')) --> the;quick;brown;fox


See Also ...

Topics

DOC_lua_base Lua base functions
DOC_lua_bc Lua bc (big number) functions
DOC_lua_bit Lua bit manipulation functions
DOC_lua_coroutines Lua coroutine functions
DOC_lua_debug Lua debug functions
DOC_lua_io Lua io functions
DOC_lua_math Lua math functions
DOC_lua_os Lua os functions
DOC_lua_package Lua package functions
DOC_lua_rex Lua PCRE regular expression functions
DOC_lua Lua script extensions
DOC_lua_string Lua string functions
DOC_lua_tables Lua table functions
DOC_lua_utils Lua utilities
DOC_scripting Scripting

Lua functions

LUA_table.foreach table.foreach (Applies a function to each item in a table)
LUA_table.foreachi table.foreachi (Applies a function to each item in a numerically-keyed table)
LUA_table.getn table.getn (Returns the size of a numerically-keyed table)
LUA_table.insert table.insert (Inserts a new item into a numerically-keyed table)
LUA_table.maxn table.maxn (Returns the highest numeric key in the table)
LUA_table.remove table.remove (Removes an item from a numerically-keyed table)
LUA_table.setn table.setn (Sets the size of a table (obsolete))
LUA_table.sort table.sort (Sorts a table)

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