Tables

[wellbeing]

Consider:

day = the day
ate = number of times i ate in day
food = ate food
candy = ate candy
drank = number of times i drank in day
peed = number of times i peed in day
gallonsPeed = number of gallons i peed that time
poopt = number of times i poopt in a day
regnum = regnum+1
all the values are being sent to the table as integers on a constant stream, creating a large table.

if i need to be able to keep track of this data and sort.. what is the best way to do it?

Register={
["day"]=day,
["ate"]=ate,
["fd"]=food,
["cd"]=candy,
["dr"]=drank,
["pd"]=peed,
["gl"]=gallonSpeed -- for this exercise we will assume i only pee in round gallons
["pt"]=poopt
["rn"]=regnum
}

--if i want to be able to call up and print the following:

--on the [candy] days that you ate candy, you pooped [poopt] times total and peed [peed] times resulting in [gallonsPeed] gallons peed total.


for regnum=1, regnum do

print("on the ", Register.cd, " days that you ate candy, you pooped ", Register.pt, " times total and peed", Register.pd, " times resulting in ", Register.gp, " gallons peed total.")

--obviously, this only prints the current register and not an accrued amount.

my table has 17 variables for each entry and i need to be able to call totals from some variables based on whether other variables are (>0) or (==0).

is this even the right/most efficient method of doing this?
if so, how do i add the values up for printing?

thanks for suffering my awful example.