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Ninjakid14
Ninjakid14

Reputation: 31

lua large spaces between print() arguments

I am trying to display the values of my eight sensors like this:

print(sensors[1], sensors[2], sensors[3])
print(sensors[4], "P", sensors[5])
print(sensors[6], sensors[7], sensors[8])

(the P stands for Player)

I thought the console would show this:

1 0 0
1 P 0
1 0 0

But instead it gave me this:

1       0       0
1       P       0
1       0       0

Why are there large spaces between the different arguments?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1565

Answers (1)

Nicol Bolas
Nicol Bolas

Reputation: 473272

As specified in the documentation, print inserts tabs between each argument, and inserts a newline at the end of what it prints. It is primarily for debugging, and it is a simple tool. If you want more rigid control of what gets printed, use io.stdout:write.

Upvotes: 3

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