i have a global table
indexes in this table are actor's IDs, so they stand not in a serial row

as i know the "for i = 0, #table do" cycle will stop if tried to acces a nil element

how can i cycle through the whole table?
maybe table.foreach?

"for i = 1, #table do" will cycle through all of the table's non-nil items, even if it bumps into a nil one in the middle of cycling.

ok, i'll try again

another question:
is there any sense in using table.remove and table.insert?

Insert and remove can shift existing elements. You can read about it here: Lua 5.1 Reference Manual: Table insert


One important thing that you may or may not be aware of:
In my experience the IDs usually stay the same between frames, but there are no guarantees.

i don't use IDs of multi-framed MOs, but 1-framed actors' IDs
btw, thanks!

He means processing update frames.

oh...

i think i've trapped on that thing (with IDs and frames), cause my script suddenly started to do weird things with an actor which it should ignore (which wasn't added to operated table too)

Question: Why store actor IDs at all? Why not just GetMOFromID so you have a stable pointer rather than an unstable MOID?

cause it's funny

That's probably not a great way to make programming decisions.

nevermind. i've made it to work in some other way