Hi On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:05:14AM -0400, V S P wrote: > what's a way to anticipate the last iteration > in loop over a table > > for colnm, coltype in pairs(tb_columns) do > unroll the magic for statement http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.4.5 and use next(tb_columns) directly http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-next However, if you want something be done at the end of each but the last iteration (like printing a ',') you might as well do it at the start of each but the first one. cheers Klaus