How to evaluate a tables in Lua?

Question

Hi guys I could really use some help. I'm not a programmer I'm just started out

Im trying to store every resulting calculated value of two tables and somehow store it into another table for later use.

Close = {1,2,6,2,2,...8} --livedata with a series of value upto 100
Open = {3,10,1,5,3,...10}--livedata with series of value upto 100

So here's my code

body = {}
  For i = 1,100 do
    if close[i] > open[i] then
      V = close[i] - open[i] 
    else
      V = open[i] - close[i]
    end
      table.insert(body,1,V)
   end

for k,v in pairs(body) do print(k,v) end

Here's the result

1    2
2    2
3    2
4    2
5    2
100  2 

It just keep repeating it last calculated value for a 100 times

I'd expect it the result to be something like this

1  2
2  8
3  5
4  3
5  1
100 2

Really appreciate it anyone who help

Answer 1

You're not showing the exact code you're running (as the variables have different names and For should be lowercase), but the main issue seems to be with the table.insert call (table.insert(body,1,V)), as you're always inserting in the first position, so you're results have the reversed order. If you fix these issues (just use table.insert(body,V)), you should get the expected results.