[Lua][Question]Calling Functions Dynamically With Table Values

Hey guys,

Is there any way to call a function using a table for arguments? The number of arguments can change depending on user input. For example, if a table is set up as { "edit", "myFile" }, I want to call shell.run() with the table values as the arguments. Another example: the table is { "myFile", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3" }. I would need to call shell.run("myFile", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3"). Since the number of arguments needed can change, hardcoding

local var1 = myTable[1]
local var2 = myTable[2]

and so on wouldn't be efficient. How can I do this?

unpack(). `shell.run(unpack(myTable))`

Also, the shell no longer requires individual arguments–it will take the whole command string in the first argument just fine. You could therefor use table.concat too, if you wanted.

Ah, thanks! Also, good to know about shell.run; it's much simpler.

Edit: I also just remembered loadstring(), but the above works just fine.