On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I merge two lua tables? I believe that table.merge or table.merged
> should do the trick, but I cannot figure out how to use them.
>
> ```
> local t1 = { 1, 2 }
> local t2 = { 8, 9 }
>
> local m1 = {}
> table.merge(m1,t1, t2)
> table.print(m1)
>
> local m2 = table.merged(t1, t2)
> table.print(m2)
> ```
>
> Processing the file with context filename shows that both m1 and m2 are {8,
> 9}. What am I missing.
Looking at the code, I see what is happening. table.merge(d) assume that the
tables are key-value tables so the keys of the first table are silently
overwritten by the send. I guess, I'll have to write my own function to merge
"array" tables.
Aditya
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