How to rename a table name

Hi everybody,

Does anyone know how to rename a table name with a string that you define earlier in a script?

local tab1={}

local myString ="mystrtable"

--here this string will be changed in script with other string so I want to have a dynamic table name.

--[[
how to rename tab1 with the value of myString ???

]]--

I don't think you can rename a table after you have created it, if you can, someone will correct me.

I would suggest creating a new table with the appropriate name, copying the data from the original to the new table, then setting the original table to nil, so it gets GC'd.

Just add a name field to your table.

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tab1 = {}
...
tab1.name = "mystrtable"

I think this is what you want to accomplish :

Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> table = {test = "value"}
> str = "myString"
> func = assert(loadstring(str .. "= table"))
> func()
> print(myString.test)
value

i think loadstring is disabled in corona.

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