Question

How to merge dictionaries in Lua

Answer 1

local dict1 = {
    ["lua"] = 3, 
    ["c"] = 9,
    ["java"] = 4,
    python = 6
}

local dict2 = {release = 5.4, base = "ANSI C", start = 1993}

mergedDict = {}
for key, val in pairs(dict1) do
    mergedDict[key] = val
end

for key, val in pairs(dict2) do
    mergedDict[key] = val
end

for key, val in pairs(mergedDict ) do
    print(string.format("%s: %s", key, val))
end





--[[
run:

python: 6
java: 4
lua: 3
c: 9
base: ANSI C
release: 5.4
start: 1993

--]]

 

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