Concatenating two tables together?

[Psychophan7]

Let's pretend I have two tables:
one = { 1="a", 2="c", 3="e" }
two = { 1="b", 2="d", 3="f" }

And what I want to do with these tables is print the values like so:
ab
cd
ef

I want to take the nth value from table one and then takes the nth value from table two. What can be done to do this?

Alternatively, is there a way to have two (or more) values per index in a table? Following the pattern of index, value1, value2:
1, a, b
2, c, d
3, e, f

[Akryn]

Tables can have other tables inside of them i.e.

local myTable = {
    {"a", "c"},
    {"b", "e"},
    {"d", "f"}
}

Example 1: print(myTable[1][2]) --prints "c"

Example 2:

for i = 1, #myTable do
   print(myTable[i][1]..myTable[i][2])
end

will print:
ac
be
df

[jaliborc]

Originally Posted by Psychophan7 Let's pretend I have two tables: one = { 1="a", 2="c", 3="e" } two = { 1="b", 2="d", 3="f" } And what I want to do with these tables is print the values like so: ab cd ef

for i,v in pairs(one) do
      print(v .. two[i])
end

[Psychophan7]

Originally Posted by Akryn Example 2: for i = 1, #myTable do print(myTable[i][1]..myTable[i][2]) end

Question about something on the first line: #myTable
I put =#myTable into the interpreter and it gives 3. I remove the # and it gives the memory location. What does the # do?

[Ailae]

# returns the size of the table.

It doesn't however take into account if there's a nil entry between 1 and n. You can read more at http://www.wowwiki.com/API_getn

[Katae]

I'm late to the thread, but this would be another way to do it...

local t1 = {"a","c","e","g"}
local t2 = {"b","d","f"}
table.foreach(t1, function(i,v) print(i,v,t2[i]) end)

1, a, b
2, c, d
3, e, f
4, g, nil

[Slakah]

Originally Posted by Katae I'm late to the thread, but this would be another way to do it... local t1 = {"a","c","e","g"} local t2 = {"b","d","f"} table.foreach(t1, function(i,v) print(i,v,t2[i]) end) 1, a, b 2, c, d 3, e, f 4, g, nil

table.foreach is deprecated, don't use it, instead use pairs().