How do I make a dynamic variable name in Lua?

Question

I am new to Lua and am having some difficulties:

I am trying to create dynamic variable names:

local tblAlphabet = {\"a\",\"b\",\"c\",\"d\",\"e\",\"f         


        

Answer 1

The variables you create are first-class values that do not have names.

You can assign them to variables which have names. Either local variables, or in this case (since you want to do it in a loop), key names in a table (either the globals table, or a table you create).

You do not need a data table to create your button names, since they follow a simple pattern.

t = {}
for b = string.byte('a'), string.byte('z') do
    c = string.char(b)              -- 'a' to 'z'
    t['button'..c] = ui.newButton() -- something like this
end