create table from two input tables .output table's key will be from first input and values will be from second input table

Question

I am having a table in which I am passing names:

names = {'Sachin', 'Ponting', 'Dhoni'}

and in other table I am passing country names:

country = {"India", "Australia", "India"}

I want output table like:

out_table = {Sachin="India", Ponting="Australia", Dhoni="India"}

Answer 1

Here's a straight-forward attempt:

names = {'Sachin', 'Ponting', 'Dhoni'}
countries = {"India", "Australia", "India"}

function table_map(names, countries)
    local out = {}
    for i, each in ipairs(names) do
        out[each] = countries[i]
    end
    return out
end

out_table = table_map(names, countries)

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