Hey All,

First post here after recently picking up and playing with pico-8 (humble bundle). It's rather brilliant I have to say!

I have only been playing around with coding for a couple of months and remain very much a novice, and this is my first time using lua with pico-8.

My question is regarding tables of tables (objects I am spawning in my game), and the deletion of those objects...

Let's say we have the following little program which spawns 5 THINGS, gives them unique names, and then adds them to the list a{}. We then delete the item with NAME=3, and then print some output...

a = {}

for i=1,5 do
	local thing = {}
	thing.name = i
	add(a,thing)
end

for thing in all(a) do
 if thing.name == 3 then
  del(a,thing)
 end
end

for thing in all(a) do
 print(thing.name)
end

print("# = "..#a)
print(a[3])

Output is: 1, 2, 4, 5, # = 4, TABLE

This works fine, and is the standard practice I have been using to remove objects from the master table.

However, let's say I already know which item on the main table (a) that I want to delete by its index, say the third item... i.e. a[3]

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