Re: Table generation issue

[Steve Heller <steve@...>]

I'll give that a try tomorrow at work. Thanks!

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:49:31 -0200, Romulo Bahiense
<romulo@icontroller.com.br> wrote:

>I believe the problem is not table allocation, but index access and 
>length calculation ('#' operator).
>
>Try this one:
>
>function createFieldDataEntriesForOneDataGenerator( dataGenerator )
>
>     local data = dataGenerator()
>
>     local iSubTable      = 0
>     local iSubTableBlock = 0
>
>     local subTable      = {}
>     local subTableBlock = {}
>
>     local subTableType
>
>     for i, element in ipairs(data) do
>         local a, b, c = element[ 1 ], element[ 2 ], element[ 3 ]
>         if a == "<type>" then
>             subTableType = b
>         elseif a == "</type>" then
>             -- do nothing
>         elseif a == "<block>" then
>             subTableBlock = {Number=b,Dup=c}
>         elseif a == "</block>" then
>             iSubTable = iSubTable + 1
>             subTable[iSubTable] = subTableBlock
>         else
>             if trim(b) ~= "" then
>                 iSubTableBlock = iSubTableBlock + 1
>                 subTableBlock[ iSubTableBlock ] = {a,b}
>             end
>         end
>     end
>
>     return subTable, subTableType
>end
>
>Note that, in this code, 'data[i]' is the same as 'element', because 
>ipairs return key and value.
>
>--rb

Steve