Lua Utilities

Collection of Functions that Lua lack, implemented from javascript, Python..etc...

Adds a Metatable that implements

Functions

Table

To not overwrite any methods of the table object, This Library creates a metatable so the only way to use these functions is to

 local t = T({})
 local children = T(game.Players:GetChildren())

:find() Finds and returns the first element that fulfils condition provided
:reverse() reverses the order of the table, table musn't contain properties
:filter() returns a new table that contains element that fulfils the condition provided
:concat(...) returns a new table that contains elements of all the Table arguments provided
:forEach() Similiar to how Luau table.foreach() behaves, iterates over the table and runs the provided functions
:map() creates a new table populated with the results of calling a provided function on every element in the calling table.
:clone() Returns a deepcopy of the table
:values() Returns a table that contains the values
:length() Returns the size of the table taking in account properties in contract to #table

Global

printf() --Checks if argument if table and and will print all descendants (not the best implemenation yet, it's WIP)

String

:split(delimeter) Similiar to the javascript counterpart,Devides the string to multiple substrings and returns an array split by the delimeter

Contributing

Contributions are always very welcome!

Usage/Examples

local users = T({
     {
        name = "john",
        age = 23
    },
     {
        name = "maria",
        age = 20
    },
     {
        name = "Nadiah",
        age = 25
    },
     {
        name = "Introvert",
        age = 16
    },
    {
        name = "Alex",
        age = 17
    }
})
local minor = users:find(function(user)
 return user.age < 18
end)
local notAllowedUsers = users:filter(function(e)
     return e.age< 18
end)
local onlyAdults = users:map(function(e)
    if e.age<18 then return nil end
    return e
end)

printf(onlyAdults)