Remove Empty Strings From The End Of A List In Lua
I needed to remove empty strings from the end of a table. This is what I ended up with :
local
local reversed = {}
local load_counter = #source
local hit_content = false
while load_counter > 0 do
if source[load_counter] ~= "" then
hit_content = true
table.insert(reversed, source[load_counter])
elseif hit_content == true then
table.insert(reversed, source[load_counter])
end
load_counter = load_counter -1
end
local trimmed = {}
local reverse_counter = #reversed
while reverse_counter > 0 do
table.insert(trimmed, reversed[reverse_counter])
reverse_counter = reverse_counter - 1
end
return trimmed
end
local source = { "a", "b", "c", "" }
local updated = remove_trailing_empty_lines(source)
print(#updated)
print(updated[1])
print(updated[2])
print(updated[3])
~ fin ~