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How do you copy a Lua table by value?
Copying a table means that we want all the values or pairs that are present in one table in another table. In Lua, there’s no standard library function that we can use to create such a table but we can create our own function to do so.
Let’s create a function in Lua that will take a table as an argument and will create a new table that will be the exact copy of the table passed as an argument to the function.
Example
Consider the example shown below as reference −
a = {} a["name"] = "mukul" a["age"] = 23 a["isWorking"] = true function table.table_copy(t) local t2 = {} for k,v in pairs(t) do t2[k] = v end return t2 end copy = table.table_copy(a) for _,v in pairs(a) do print(v) end for _,v in pairs(copy) do print(v) end
In the above example, we have a table named a which we later pass as an argument to the function named table.table_copy() and that function returns us a copy of the same table that we passed and finally I printed the values inside these tables to check whether the copied table is accurate or not.
Output
mukul true 23 mukul true 23