lua - #在Lua中是什么意思？

Question

我已经看到在 Lua 中经常将哈希字符“#”添加到变量的前面。

它有什么作用？

例子

-- sort AIs in currentlevel
table.sort(level.ais, function(a,b) return a.y < b.y end)
local curAIIndex = 1
local maxAIIndex = #level.ais
for i = 1,#currentLevel+maxAIIndex do
    if level.ais[curAIIndex].y+sprites.monster:getHeight() < currentLevel[i].lowerY then
        table.insert(currentLevel, i, level.ais[curAIIndex])
        curAIIndex = curAIIndex + 1
        if curAIIndex > maxAIIndex then
            break
        end
    end
end

抱歉，如果已经有人问过这个问题，我在互联网上搜索了很多，但似乎还没有找到答案。提前致谢!

Answer 1

那就是 length operator :

The length operator is denoted by the unary operator #. The length of a string is its number of bytes (that is, the usual meaning of string length when each character is one byte).

The length of a table t is defined to be any integer index n such that t[n] is not nil and t[n+1] is nil; moreover, if t[1] is nil, n can be zero. For a regular array, with non-nil values from 1 to a given n, its length is exactly that n, the index of its last value. If the array has "holes" (that is, nil values between other non-nil values), then #t can be any of the indices that directly precedes a nil value (that is, it may consider any such nil value as the end of the array).