TableTools
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Revision as of 05:33, 15 December 2013 by Mr. Stradivarius (talk) (add getNumKeys function and improve the comments, add the beginnings of a sparseIpairs function)
Revision as of 05:33, 15 December 2013 by Mr. Stradivarius (talk) (add getNumKeys function and improve the comments, add the beginnings of a sparseIpairs function)
Documentation for this module may be created at Module:TableTools/doc
-- This module includes a number of functions that can be useful when dealing with Lua tables. local p = {} -- Define often-used variables and functions. local floor = math.floor local infinity = math.huge --[[ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- isPositiveInteger -- -- This function returns true if the given number is a positive integer, and false -- if not. Although it doesn't operate on tables, it is included here as it is -- useful for determining whether a given table key is in the array part or the -- hash part of the table. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --]] function p.isPositiveInteger(num) if type(num) == 'number' and num >= 1 and floor(num) == num and num < infinity then return true else return false end end --[[ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- getNumKeys -- -- This takes a table and returns an array containing the numbers of any numerical -- keys that have non-nil values, sorted in numerical order. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --]] function p.getNumKeys(t) local isPositiveInteger = p.isPositiveInteger local nums = {} for k, v in pairs(t) do if isPositiveInteger(k) then nums[#nums + 1] = k end end table.sort(nums) return nums end --[[ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- compressSparseArray -- -- This takes an array with one or more nil values, and removes the nil values -- while preserving the order, so that the array can be safely traversed with -- ipairs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --]] function p.compressSparseArray(t) local ret = {} local nums = p.getNumKeys(t) table.sort(nums) for _, num in ipairs(nums) do ret[#ret + 1] = t[num] end return ret end --[[ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- sparseIpairs -- -- This is an iterator for sparse arrays. It can be used like ipairs, but can -- handle nil values. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --]] -- function p.sparseIpairs(t) -- local nums = p.getNumKeys(t) return p