Is there a difference between in pairs and ipairs?

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#1

Is there a difference between in pairs and ipairs? I’m always using in pairs, is ipairs faster or something like that?

#2

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#3

there is no difference except the fact that ipairs stops the loop when there is a nil value, lemme show you an example

local Table  = {"hi","Hello","welcome",nil}

for _,v in pairs(Table) do
     print(v)
end

Output:

hi
hello
welcome
nil

and than the ipairs

local Table  = {"hi","Hello","welcome",nil}

for _,v in ipairs(Table) do
     print(v)
end

output:

hi
hello
welcome

it just stops and doesn’t continue when it hits a nil value

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Ipairs vs pairs. What's the difference?
#4

Also, pairs iterates over all indexes and keys, while ipairs only works with indexed items. It starts at 1 and stops once it reaches an index that’s nil.

> t = {'a', 'b'}
> t['key1'] = 3
> t['key2'] = 4
> t[5] = 5
> for k, v in pairs(t) do print(k, v) end
1	a
2	b
key1	3
5	5
key2	4
> for k, v in ipairs(t) do print(k, v) end
1	a
2	b
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