ipairs is skipping...

for i,v in ipairs(filelist) do
			    if string.lower(string.sub(v,#v-3,#v)) == ".ico" then
							    table.remove(filelist,i)
			    end
end

so got this code, and well it seems that because of the fact i remove the input(i) from the table if it ends in ".ico" i think it messes up the order that it goes in, for example say i=5 and v does end in “.ico” it deletes it, but now 6 has become 5, meaning that it actually skips that particular number, any solutions to this?

Much Appreciated

this was covered pretty extensively a few days back in this thread, there are multiple possible solutions listed there.

Quick and dirty solution is to use 'pairs' because it uses a different way of indexing that can handle this. :)/> (each key has a pointer to the next key)

Edit: GopherAtl's answer is more thorough. :)/>

For removing entries from an iterative table, I prefer to decrement a numeric for loop. But using pairs would be safer.