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Copy table contents to another table with exustung content

So I've had trouble finding a solution to this on my own.
The idea is to be able to support "plugins" to my addon.

Disregard the unfinished state, as it is primary a learning project for myself.
As seen i have my table named Stylemeter.datamodules here.
Now i want to be able to write let's say a Damage Taken module which may look like something like this:

Code:

dt = {

        ["Damage Taken"] = {

                ["activated"] = true,

                        ["strings"] = {

                        ["SWING_DAMAGE"] = {

                                "arg12", --damagetaken swing

                        },

                        ["RANGE_DAMAGE"] = {

                                "arg15", --damagetaken range

                        },

                        ["SPELL_DAMAGE"] = {

                                "arg15", --damagetaken spell

                        },

                        ["ENVIRONMENTAL_DAMAGE"] = {

                                "arg13", --damagetaken environmental

                        },

                },

        },

}

how can i copy the contents of dt into StyleMeter.datamodules?
I've come across deepcopy functions in my research, but all the do seems to make a direct copy of the table, i want to actually insert these keys and values to an existing one.

Or is my approach here completely in the wrong direction?

A generic recursive table copy function:

Code:

function Copy_Table(src, dest)

        for index, value in pairs(src) do

                if type(value) == "table" then

                        dest[index] = {}

                        Copy_Table(value, dest[index])

                else

                        dest[index] = value

                end

        end

end

Your destination can be a sub-table in another table.

Code:

ns.datamodules.DamageTaken = {}

Copy_Table(dt, ns.datamodules.DamageTaken)

Lua Code:

--[[
 
If you would like to slip the whole table called ["Damage_Taken"](remove the space) into Stylemeter.datamodules then you can just use
 
--]]
 
Stylemeter.datamodules.Damage_Taken = dt.Damage_Taken 
 
--[[
 
or if the name of the table is dynamic/unknown then try this
 
--]]
 
for TableName, TableValue in pairs(dt) do
    Stylemeter.datamodules[TableName] = TableValue
end
 
--[[
 
or if you want to only copy the values within the table ["strings"] then try
 
NOTE: This is provided that a table with these names already exists
 
--]]
 
for StringName, StringValue in pairs(dt.Damage_Taken.strings) do
    Stylemeter.datamodules.Damage_Taken.strings[StringName] = StringValue
end
 
--[[
 
or if you want to only copy the values within the table ["strings"] and the name is dynamic/unknown then try
 
NOTE: This is provided that a table with these names already exists
 
--]]
 
for TableName, TableValue in pairs(dt) do
 
    for StringName, StringValue in pairs(TableValue.strings) do
        Stylemeter.datamodules[TableName].strings[StringName] = StringValue
    end
end

Thank you very much, everyone!
Seems so simple, yet i've spent hours on figuring that out without success.

Defenitely some elegant ways to accomplish this, that's neat.