modulo?

[madmaurice]

is there any way to use module in the wow lua files. i tried the 'mod' operator as told in the lua documentations but it always causes an error

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Originally Posted by madmaurice is there any way to use module in the wow lua files. i tried the 'mod' operator as told in the lua documentations but it always causes an error

Do you mean modulus? IE as in getting the remainder of two numbers divided? It exists and should simply be mod(x,y) where x and y are the two numbers you want to divide and get the remainder. Now having said that it may not work how you expect.

ie:

Take -2 / 5 which equals -0.4:
This could be considered:
a) 0 with a remainder of -2 (since -2 = 1x5 + -2)
b) -1 with a remainder of 3 (since -2 = -1x5 + 3)
Now mod will return -2, but if you really wanted 3 then your not going to get it with the mod command.

This will not work in cases such as:

You want to create a hash table mapping an arbitrary integer "x" onto an array "type hash_table[47];"
You would want mod(x,47) to produce a result of 0..46 for all values of "x" even negative ones but that will not happen with mod.