Having problems with tables

Hi, I'm trying to assign multiple turbines using tables (First time using tables by the way)
and I'm having problems Ive been searching google and forum but i cant seem to find the help i need
Could anyone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong?

http://pastebin.com/sKJ8p82n

thanks,
Sky

{peripheral.find} returns a table of already wrapped peripherals, so your for loop is unnessary/wrong.

You will have to loop though that table when you want to call any functions though. For convenience you can create functions that do the looping for you:

local reactors = {peripheral.find ("whatever")}

local function setActive (active)
  for i,  reactor in ipairs (t)
    reactor.setActive (active)
  end
end

Ok thanks how would i set each Turbine a name IE if it was done normally it would be.

T1 = peripheral.wrap("BigReactors-Turbine_0")

After putting the results of peripheral.find() to a table you'd have to access the separate peripherals using:

T[1].setActive(...)
T[2].anotherMethod()

Read up on tables here.

I read so much about tables but i can seem to grasp it fully
Guess i will keep trying lol thanks for the help all :)/>

Hi, Another question
I am currently trying to add the total RF per a tick generated for all of the turbines im able to call the value pretty easy but i need to find a way to add the value together for all 10 turbines so i get a total value.
the only way i know to do this is:

Total = T[1].getEnergyProducedLastTick() + T[2]getEnergyProducedLastTick() + T[3].......

Is there a more efficient way?

Edit is the also a way to remove the decimal at the end of the Total?

I think you can loop through the turbine table and add the energy of each turbine to the total like this:

for i, turbine in pairs(turbines) do
	Total = Total + T[i].getEnergyProducedLastTick()
end

To get rid of the decimal, you can round the total using either math.floor() or math.ceil().


Bomb Bloke has a better loop and more info on the roudning below

When it comes to dealing with multiple entries in a table, usually the answer is "for loops".

Eg:

local Total = 0
for i = 1, #T do Total = Total + T[i].getEnergyProducedLastTick() end

If you're getting a ".0" when mon.write()'ing numbers, tostring() them. If you wish to round them down, math.floor() them.