Help creating a table

[eric963]

I have been using some of the basic MIST functions and have not hsd to many problems with using usint them when it just needs like single id's like group name, unit nsme or a single trigger zone name.

 

Now I am stuck on creating a table. I need to create a table that will contain lets say 30 trigger zones. Can someonr please give me an example of this.

 

Thanks

Eric

[RagnarDa]

Tutorial about tables:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/TablesTutorial

 

Arrays:

http://www.lua.org/pil/11.1.html

[eric963]

Ok, I gave it all I could over the weekend but I'm still stuck. I have a mission where I clone a group into a random zone using this command

 

mist.cloneInZone ('clonegroup', {'zone1', 'zone2', 'zone3'})

This is working fine, but say I have a large number of zones. It would not be practical to type in all the zone names. The MIST doc says this

mist.cloneInZone (string

groupName, string zoneName, Boolean disperse, number distance)

zoneName

also accepts a table of zone names which it will

pick from at random to spawn the group.

 

MIST has the table called mist.DBs.zonesByName

 

This is where I am stumped. I a missing something important when I try to use that table in my

mist.cloneInZone ('clonegroup', {'zone1', 'zone2', 'zone3'})

and replacing the {'zone1', 'zone2', 'zone3'} part with a table.

Could someone please show me what I'm missing.

Thanks

Eric "Trying to learn some LAU" Cabral

[RagnarDa]

I don't have the MiST-documentation in front of me, but I think there is a function to create a table given a string variable, something like mist.getZones("[all]")