Re: Removing holes from a list

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 26/09/15 03:58 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2015-09-26 17:44 GMT+02:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
> > Try this:
> >
> > list=table.pack(1,2,3,nil,4,5,nil,nil,6,7)
> >
> > local n=0
> > for i=1,list.n do
> >          if list[i]~=ni then
> >                  n=n+1
> >                  list[n]=list[i]
> >          end
> > end
> > list.n=n
> >
> > for k,v in ipairs(list) do print(k,v) end
> This is a little like one of my solutions, but neater. Thanks.
>
> However, #list is still 10. One needs, before resetting list.n,
>
> for i=n+1,list.n do list[i]=nil end
Would this work?

list=table.pack(1,2,3,nil,4,5,nil,nil,6,7)

local n=0
for i=1,list.n do
        if list[i]~=nil then
                n=n+1
                list[n]=list[i]
                list[i]=nil
        end
end
list.n=n

for k,v in ipairs(list) do print(k,v) end

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