Search for an item in a Lua list

Question

If I have a list of items like this:

local items = { \"apple\", \"orange\", \"pear\", \"banana\" }

how do I check if \"orange\" is in this

Answer 1

you can use this solution:

items = { 'a', 'b' }
for k,v in pairs(items) do 
 if v == 'a' then 
  --do something
 else 
  --do something
 end
end

or

items = {'a', 'b'}
for k,v in pairs(items) do 
  while v do
    if v == 'a' then 
      return found
    else 
      break
    end
  end 
 end 
return nothing