Lua tables have two parts - the ordered part with indices 1 ... n and the other part is everything else. You can iterate over a table in various ways. pairs() i

Lua tables have two parts - the ordered part with indices 1 ... n and the other part is everything else. You can iterate over a table in various ways. pairs() is an iterator over the entire table in an undefined order. ipairs() gives the ordered integer keys from 1 to #t (#t gives the max integer key of a table t). My favorite aspect of Lua tables is that attribute-style access is exactly equivalent to dict-style access. At the repl: > tab = {} -- allocate a new table "tab" > tab.string = "hello!" > =tab.string == tab['string'] true Also, you can index a Lua table by any other value. Functions, strings, tables, and booleans are all valid keys. nil is the only invalid key. This has been your daily dose of Lua!