Concatenation of tables in Lua

Question

ORIGINAL POST

Given that there is no built in function in Lua, I am in search of a function that allows me to append tables together. I have google

Answer 1

Here is an implementation I've done similar to RBerteig's above, but using the hidden parameter arg which is available when a function receives a variable number of arguments. Personally, I think this is more readable vs the select syntax.

function array_concat(...)
    local t = {}

    for i = 1, arg.n do
        local array = arg[i]
        if (type(array) == "table") then
            for j = 1, #array do
                t[#t+1] = array[j]
            end
        else
            t[#t+1] = array
        end
    end

    return t
end