Unpack table in table in table in table [SOLVED]

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to unpack all the tables in a table.

  2. What is the issue? Well I don’t know much tables there are so I don’t know how much times to loop

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I tried to make my own function with while but it seems too complicating

function getArgs(Table)
      -- epic code shit that unpacks all the tables inside the table
      print(table.unpack(result))
end

getArgs({"test", {"test2", {"hi"}}})

Is there a method I’m missing or is this impossible?

#2

when you unpack the table, where do you want its values to be stored?
Inside the primary table or be returned from the function?

#3

In the ‘result’ table. Also inside the primary table since im not returning

#4

do something like this

function getArgs(Table)
    local result = {};
    print(Table)
    for _, Value in pairs(Table) do

		  local unpacked = type(Value) == "table" and {getArgs(Value)} or Value
	
		  if type(unpacked) == "table" then
				for _, Value in pairs(unpacked) do
					table.insert(result, Value)
				end
		  else
				table.insert(result, unpacked)
		  end
    end

    return unpack(result)
end

something like this?

1 Like
#5

Yeah, Thats what I was looking for… but you reset the ‘resutlt’ in the function so I might consider assigning result out of the function. Also I thought of this but I didn’t think it was this easy :stuck_out_tongue:

I was making a remote spy with __namecall

#6 




local BaseTable = {
	3,
	{	
		2,
		"Bob",
		Vector3.new(3,4,6),
		{
			"BobValue"
		}
	}
}

local function UnpackTables(var : table)
	local newtable = {}
	
	for _,v in pairs(var) do
		if typeof(v) == "table" then
			for _,v1 in pairs(UnpackTables(v)) do
				table.insert(newtable,v1)
			end
		else
			table.insert(newtable,v)
		end
	end
	
	return newtable
end


local FixedTable = UnpackTables(BaseTable)

print(FixedTable)
1 Like
#7

this wont work since when unpacking you can have multiple values

#8 
function getArgs(Table)
    local result = {};
    print(Table)
    for _, Value in pairs(Table) do

		  local unpacked = type(Value) == "table" and {getArgs(Value)} or Value
	
		  if type(unpacked) == "table" then
				for _, Value in pairs(unpacked) do
					table.insert(result, Value)
				end
		  else
				table.insert(result, unpacked)
		  end
    end

    return unpack(result)
end

print(getArgs({"test", {"test2", {"hi"}}}))

I realized that just now too lol

2 Likes
#9

Will look into that. If it works.

#10

Works perfectly! Just as I needed. Thank you all for your help.

1 Like