Difference between for i,v in pairs and for i, val in next, table?

[iamtryingtofindname]

What is the difference between the two following?

local array = {"Hello","World"}

for i,v in pairs(array) do
    print(v)
end

and

local array = {"Hello","World"}

for i,v in next,array do
    print(v)
end

Is one of them better than the other, because they both yield the same result.

[Jackscarlett]

Have you searched up the forum?

Differences between pairs and next?

They’re the same. In vanilla Lua, pairs is written as function pairs(t) return next, t, nil end So that in a generic for loop it looks like this for k, v in next, t do end But in Roblox, pairs doesn’t seem to return next, but overall the behaviour is the same. You should always use pairs tho, it is idiomatically correct way to traverse dictionaries/mixed tables, and ipairs only goes through the array part, and ipairs is the idiomatically correct way to go through the array part of a tab…

[iamtryingtofindname]

I have but and did not see that post, but that does solve my problem.