This seems like a very straightforward question, but I haven't been able to turn up an answer. I am adding game objects to a table in Lua like this:
local lock = GameObject {
-- object values and methods
table.insert(objects, lock)
But despite a lot of google searching and reading through the Lua documentation, I cannot figure out how to reference these objects by their names. I think it's because there is a very specific syntax to do so. If anyone could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
You might want to do something like this instead of table.insert. Objects will still be a table.
objects = {}
objects.lock = {}
objects.lock2 = {}
If you then execute
for key, value in pairs(objects) do
print(key,value)
end
You will get the output
lock2 table: 0x1af3310
lock table: 0x1af3870
Further explanation
In you question(not the solution above) lock is only the variable name given to it, it is not the name of the index.
In this code snippet, you can see that the items being inserted into objects do not have the variable name recorded within objects. objects is storing an int as the key, and then the inserted table as the value.
objects = {}
local lock = {}
local lock2 = {}
-- object values and methods
table.insert(objects, lock)
table.insert(objects, lock2)
for key, value in pairs(objects) do
print(key,value)
print(type(value))
end
prints
1 table: 0x131b590
table
2 table: 0x131b540
table