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Iterate in reverse order through a table.

Started by Cranium, 07 December 2012 - 07:36 AM

Cranium #1

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Posted 07 December 2012 - 08:36 AM

I want to use a for loop, but instead of iterating sequentially in ascending order, I would like to go in descending order. So for example,


for i = 5,1 do
	print("descending order #"..i)
end

How would I do that?

EDIT: Extensive googling gave me my answer.


for i = 5,1,-1 do --using iterations of -1
	print("descending order #"..i)
end

Edited on 07 December 2012 - 07:41 AM

Lyqyd #2

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Posted 07 December 2012 - 08:42 AM

for var = start, end, step do

Use a negative value for step.

Cranium #3

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Posted 07 December 2012 - 09:09 AM

Literally found the solution only seconds before you posted, Lyqyd. But thanks anyway.