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7.1 The Functions next and nextvar

This example shows how to use the function next to iterate over the fields of a table. 
function f (t)               -- t is a table
  local i, v = next(t, nil)  -- i is an index of t, v = t[i]
  while i do
    ...                      -- do something with i and v
    i, v = next(t, i)        -- get next index
  end
end

The next example prints the names of all global variables in the system with non nil values: 

function printGlobalVariables ()
  local i, v = nextvar(nil)
  while i do
    print(i)
    i, v = nextvar(i)
  end
end

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