Re: Accessing String contents

[meino.cramer@...]

meino.cramer@gmx.de <meino.cramer@gmx.de> [12-06-21 17:58]:
> Hi,
> 
> from a string in a table like this
> 
>     a={}
>     a[1]="hello"
> 
> I want to access/retrieve the n-th character.
> 
> Somewhere I read about, that in lua everything is a table,
> therefore I thought that
> 
>     =a[1][1]
> 
> would gives me "h" instead of an error. 
> 
> But this may be thought too C-ish... ;)
> 
> I scanned through the String Tutorial, the String Library Tutotrial
> and the online version of Programming Lua and found nothing what seems
> appropiate to me...but I am sure that's due to me.... :)
> 
> What is the most cheapest (in terms of performance and programming
> overhead) way to access the n-th character of a string which stored
> at a certain index in a table?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> Best regards,
> mcc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Hi Luantics, 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP! :)

Great stuff, which will help me lot ! :)

Best regards,
mcc