In range loop
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In Lua, a range loop is not directly supported like in some other programming languages. However, it can be achieved using the for
loop in combination with the ipairs
function for iterating over a range of values. Here's an example:
for i = 1, 10 do
print(i)
end
In this example, the for
loop initializes a variable i
to 1, specifies the end condition as 10
, and defaults the increment to 1
. The loop then iterates from 1 to 10, and the print(i)
statement displays the current value of i
in each iteration.
The ipairs
function can be used to achieve a similar effect when working with arrays or sequences. For example:
local myArray = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50}
for index, value in ipairs(myArray) do
print(index, value)
end
In this case, the ipairs
function returns the index-value pairs of the array myArray
, allowing the loop to iterate over the elements and display both the index and value in each iteration.