Lua - Insert table values

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I got a table of form let's say:

house = {
             ["Street 22"] = {
                        {name = "George", age = 20},
                        {name = "Pete", age = 25}
                      },
             ["Street 30"] = {
                        {name = "John", age = 32},
                    }
           }

And I want to insert programmatically a third house, that is key "Street 35", with a person's details, Nick and 30 let's say. I am relatively new to lua and don't know how to do this, I must use table.insert but I am having troubles following the above format... Some help please?

house["Street 35"] = house["Street 35"] or {}; table.insert(house["Street 35"], {name = "Nick", age = 30}) — Egor Skriptunoff
– Egor Skriptunoff, Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 6:45

user5992808 · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-01 10:24:28Z

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Do it simple so:

house["Street 52"] = {{name = "Nick", age = 30}}

answered Jan 1, 2017 at 10:24

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valepert · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-01 02:08:32Z

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did you read this and get confused?

just try table.insert(house, {name = "Nick", age = 30}) and house[3] now contains the new element.

answered Jan 1, 2017 at 2:08

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darkchampionz Over a year ago

Thanks, that works, it was simple indeed. But I edited my question a bit, what if I need to add a key "Street 52" for example with name and age the ones I mention...?

Chinwobble · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-01 02:12:21Z

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You could also mutate the third element of the houses table like this:

house[3]={name = "Nick", age = 30}

answered Jan 1, 2017 at 2:12

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