For loop not removing everything in the table

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Hi, my for loop isn’t removing everything. There seem to be several values still left in my table. Here is my script:

	for i=1,#availableCharacters,1 do
		table.remove(availableCharacters, i)
	end
2

Fixed, for those who were wondering, I needed to add in a repeat-until like so:

	repeat
		for i=1,#availableCharacters,1 do
			table.remove(availableCharacters, i)
		end
	until #availableCharacters == 0
3

You already fixed the problem, but just wanted to point that table.clear(table) is a 1000% more effective way of clearing a table :wink:

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4

That’s a thing? That makes my life way easier. I’ll take a look at it.

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5

It was announced 11 days ago: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/resources/release-note/Release-Notes-for-456
Added the method table.clear(tb) which empties a table but leaves the prior capacity allocated allowing efficient re-use of Lua tables.

6

So does it completely clear the table?

7

As it has been stated, it completely clears the table, but leaves the memory allocated for efficient re-use of it.

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