lua检测表中是否有某个值_如何检查表是否包含Lua中的元素？

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add something for posterity.

The simple way of handling the issue that you have is to make another table, of value to key.

ie. you have 2 tables that have the same value, one pointing one direction, one pointing the other.

function addValue(key, value)

if (value == nil) then

removeKey(key)

return

end

_primaryTable[key] = value

_secodaryTable[value] = key

end

function removeKey(key)

local value = _primaryTable[key]

if (value == nil) then

return

end

_primaryTable[key] = nil

_secondaryTable[value] = nil

end

function getValue(key)

return _primaryTable[key]

end

function containsValue(value)

return _secondaryTable[value] ~= nil

end

You can then query the new table to see if it has the key 'element'. This prevents the need to iterate through every value of the other table.

If it turns out that you can't actually use the 'element' as a key, because it's not a string for example, then add a checksum or tostring on it for example, and then use that as the key.

Why do you want to do this? If your tables are very large, the amount of time to iterate through every element will be significant, preventing you from doing it very often. The additional memory overhead will be relatively small, as it will be storing 2 pointers to the same object, rather than 2 copies of the same object.

If your tables are very small, then it will matter much less, infact it may even be faster to iterate than to have another map lookup.

The wording of the question however strongly suggests that you have a large number of items to deal with.