Re: Changing tables during traversal: clearing and re-adding a field

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 29/06/2011 18:15, Dirk Feytons wrote:
> for k,v in pairs(t) do
>    t[k] = nil
>    if (<some condition>) then
>      t[k] =<some other value>
>    end
> end

Unless I am missing something (maybe the real code is much more complex), you can rewrite 
it as:

for k, v in pairs(t) do
  if (<some condition>) then
    t[k] = <some other value>
  else
    t[k] = nil
  end
end

no?

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