Checking if dictionaries are equal to each other

[vellagomez12]

Hello! I am trying to develop helper functions for a game that I am making. This helper function
checks if two dictionaries have the same shared values. It works well but I want to know if there is
a more efficient solution to this or if there is a built in function that I am unaware of.

Thanks!

dictionariesEqual = function(dictionary1, dictionary2)
	for i,v in dictionary1 do
		if typeof(dictionary1[i]) == "table" then
			if not dictionariesEqual(dictionary1[i],dictionary2[i]) then
				return false
			end
		else
			if not (dictionary1[i] == dictionary2[i]) then
				return false
			end
		end
	end
	return true
end

[MagmaBurnsV]

This function will error if the first table has a table key and the second table does not have a correlating one, because you are only checking if the first table’s value is a table.

There’s not much else I can add, other than some basic optimizations. There’s also a good library that has typings in it you can look into.

local function AreTablesEqual(Table1: {any}, Table2: {any}): boolean
	for Key, Value1 in Table1 do
		
		local Value2 = Table2[Key]
		
		if type(Value1) == "table" and type(Value2) == "table" then
			if not AreTablesEqual(Value1, Value2) then
				return false
			end
		elseif Value1 ~= Value2 then
			return false
		end
		
	end
	
	return true
end

PS: Mine’s like ~0.06 seconds faster

[vellagomez12]

Thanks for pointing that out! Did not realize this.