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- Subject: Re: Unexpected table.remove behaviour.
- From: Enrico Colombini <erix@...>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:49:36 +0200
lostgallifreyan wrote:
Suppose you have a LONG table full of several thousand NMEA
> sentences or whatever.. If you need to thin data in place
> according to some rule, you need table.remove().
> But if you use ipairs() you work forwards from index 1.
I'm not sure I'd use a simple flat table in a case like this. Maybe a
linked list or some other structure could be more appropriate, depending
on the frequency of operations and their relative cost.
Enrico