table

Table belongs to the module provided by Lua native. For the native interface, you can refer to: lua official document

It has been extended in xmake to add some extension interfaces:

table.join

• Merge multiple tables and return

Function Prototype

API

table.join(tables: <table>, ...)

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
tables	Table to merge
...	Variable arguments, can pass multiple tables

Usage

You can merge the elements in multiple tables and return to a new table, for example:

local newtable = table.join({1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {7, 8, 9})

The result is: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}

And it also supports the merging of dictionaries:

local newtable = table.join({a = "a", b = "b"}, {c = "c"}, {d = "d"})

The result is: {a = "a", b = "b", c = "c", d = "d"}

table.join2

• Combine multiple tables into the first table

Function Prototype

API

table.join2(target: <table>, tables: <table>, ...)

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
target	Target table to merge into
tables	Table to merge
...	Variable arguments, can pass multiple tables

Usage

Similar to table.join, the only difference is that the result of the merge is placed in the first argument, for example:

local t = {0, 9}
table.join2(t, {1, 2, 3})

The result is: t = {0, 9, 1, 2, 3}

table.unique

• Deduplicate the contents of the table

Function Prototype

API

table.unique(tbl: <table>)

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
tbl	Table to deduplicate

Usage

To de-table elements, generally used in array tables, for example:

local newtable = table.unique({1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5})

The result is: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

table.slice

• Get the slice of the table

Function Prototype

API

table.slice(tbl: <table>, start: <number>, stop: <number>, step: <number>)

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
tbl	Table to slice
start	Start index
stop	Stop index (optional)
step	Step size (optional)

Usage

Used to extract some elements of an array table, for example:

-- Extract all elements after the 4th element, resulting in: {4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
table.slice({1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, 4)

-- Extract the 4th-8th element and the result: {4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
table.slice({1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, 4, 8)

-- Extract the 4th-8th element with an interval of 2, resulting in: {4, 6, 8}
table.slice({1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, 4, 8, 2)

table.contains

• Determine that the table contains the specified value

Function Prototype

API

table.contains(tbl: <table>, values: <any>, ...)

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
tbl	Table to check
values	Values to check for
...	Variable arguments, can pass multiple values

Usage

if table.contains(t, 1, 2, 3) then
     - ...
end

As long as the table contains any value from 1, 2, 3, it returns true

table.orderkeys

• Get an ordered list of keys

Function Prototype

API

table.orderkeys(tbl: <table>)

Parameter Description

Parameter	Description
tbl	Table to get keys from

Usage

The order of the key list returned by table.keys(t) is random. If you want to get an ordered key list, you can use this interface.