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knoxy's variadic arguments question [SOLVED]

Started by knoxy5467, 27 January 2013 - 08:21 AM

knoxy5467 #1

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:21 AM

hi i need help with something that most of you will probably think is elementary.
most of you know that when you use excavate you have to put a num after it for it to work

i want to make a program that digs rings and when i say dig 4 it would dig a 4x4 ring i want to know how to pass a variable like that.

i have seen things like tArgs = {…} but that doesnt seem to work…

Lyqyd #2

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:41 AM

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LBPHacker #3

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:01 AM


local tArgs = {...} -- and now tArgs contains the arguments
for i = 1, #tArgs do print(tArgs[i]) end -- this will print every arguments passed

remiX #4

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 10:07 AM


args = {...}

length = tonumber(args[1])

if not length then
    print("No length specified")
    return
end

for i = 1, length do
-- code here to use the length
end

knoxy5467 #5

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 06:01 PM

thank you you have saved me