maidroid/util.lua

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-- Copyright (c) 2016 tacigar
-- https://github.com/tacigar/maidroid
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maidroid.util = {}

-- check that the table has the value
function maidroid.util.table_find_value(tbl, value)
    for k, v in ipairs(tbl) do
        if v == value then return true, k end
    end
    return false, nil
end

-- table shallow copy
function maidroid.util.table_shallow_copy(source)
    local copy = {}
    for key, value in pairs(source) do
        copy[key] = value
    end
    return copy
end