Is it possible to see if a string is the same as the name of a table?
For example:
I know that a table called 'os' exists, and I have a string "os"
.
Is there then a way to do this:
x="os"
if type(x)=="table" then
print("hurra, the string is a table")
end
Of course this example wont work like I want it to because
type(x)
will just return "string".
The reason why I want to do this, is just because I wanted to list all existing Lua tables, so I made this piece of code:
alphabetStart=97
alphabetEnd=122
function findAllTables(currString, length)
if type(allTables)=="nil" then
allTables={}
end
if type(currString)=="table" then
allTables[#allTables+1]=currString
end
if #currString < length then
for i=alphabetStart, alphabetEnd do
findAllTables(currString..string.char(i), length)
end
end
end
findAllTables("", 2)
for i in pairs(allTables) do
print(i)
end
I wouldn't be surprised if there is an easier method to list all existing tables, I'm just doing this for fun in my progress of learning Lua.