Hey everyone, I've spent the past 4 hours hammering away at this problem to no avail (Either I'm really bad at understanding the lua stack, or it's something else entirely)

Suppose I have an lua file structured like this

ID1 = {

    name = "Description 1",

    mod = 20

},



ID2 = {

    name = "Description 2",

    mod = -15

}

And now suppose I need to get this loaded into a structure I have.

And my question is, how do I do it? How can I iterate though all these tables dynamically and load these values in. I've tried using lua_next and other methods, but all they do is spit out access violation reading exceptions.

Edit: Whoops, wrong subforum. Could I have this moved to API?

This is actually much better than what I had, thank you!

Edit: Small question, If I follow that last suggestion, how do I access the tables contained within "my_data_container"

(Sorry, lua just seems very needlessly obscure about what I need to do to access items in the stack)

Edit: Small question, If I follow that last suggestion, how do I access the tables contained within "my_data_container"

If you just declare a variable in a file using dofile, it is automatically global. Therefor you can handle it like any other global variable

local item = my_data_container.ID1
local item2 = my_data_container["ID1"]

Thanks!

I also finally managed to get it to work after enough fiddling with the stack and more review of the reference manual.