So I'm writing a program for the minecraft mod computercraft. I wanted to know if it was possible to do something like this:
tbl = {}
var = "minecraft:dirt"
tbl[var] = {pos ={0,0,0,1}}
For some reason I feel it doesnt save this table correctly so when I go to do
print(tbl["minecraft:dirt"].pos[4])
it errors
Can you use colons in keys?
tbl = {}
var = "minecraft:dirt"
tbl[var] = {pos ={0,0,0,1}}
print(tbl["minecraft:dirt"].pos[4])
prints 1
This is syntactically correct and should not result in any error message.
The only thing that won't work with colon is the syntactic sugar tbl.minecraft:dirt as Lua names may not contain colons. But if you use it like that tbl["minecraft:dirt"] colon is perfectly fine.
Long story short: Yes you can use colons in table keys.
