Question

I am very new to lua and my plan is to create a table. This table (I call it test) has 200 entries – each entry has the same subentries (In this example the subentries money and age):

This is a sort of pseudocode:

table test = {
    Entry 1: money=5 age=32
    Entry 2: money=-5 age=14
    ...
    Entry 200: money=999 age=72
}

How can I write this in lua ? Is there a possibility ? The other way would be, that I write each subentry as a single table:

table money = { }
table age = { }

But for me, this isn’t a nice way, so maybe you can help me.

Edit:

This question Table inside a table is related, but I cannot write this 200x.

Answer 1

Try this syntax:

test = {
  { money = 5, age = 32 },
  { money = -5, age = 14 },
  ...
  { money = 999, age = 72 }
}

Examples of use:

-- money of the second entry:
print(test[2].money) -- prints "-5"

-- age of the last entry:
print(test[200].age) -- prints "72"