How To | Return the length of a table in Lua

Understand how to return the length of a table in Lua, with detailed steps and examples.

Updated at May 4th, 2023

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Procedure

To obtain the length of a table, use the length operator (#) in front of the table. For example:

myTable = {"value1", "value2", "value3"}
print(#myTable)

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