What does Three dots (...) mean in Lua

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#1

What does Three dots ( … ) in lua mean ?, ex;

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(arg1, arg2, ...)

i just came across them and i have no clue about what it could be

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#2

they return the rest of the arguments in a tuple (or table idk forgot)

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#3

Yeah, it refers to a tuple which comprises the rest of the arguments passed. If you want to turn them into a table:

local packed = {...}
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#4

An elipses (three consecutive periods) in Lua denotes a variable argument expression, as its name suggests it’s an expression that represents a variable number of arguments.

local function ExampleFunc(FirstArg, SecondArg, ...)
	local VarArg = {...} --Packs the variable arguments into a table.
end

ExampleFunc(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) --FirstArg is passed '1', SecondArg is passed '2' and the variable argument expression is passed '3, 4 and 5'.

https://www.lua.org/pil/5.2.html
You can learn more here, just bare in mind that the implicit ‘arg’ variable isn’t declared in Roblox Lua, you need to explicitly assign the variable argument expression instead.

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#5

You can compare the elipses (…) to *args and **Leary’s in other languages

#6

or you can use table.pack
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