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table.FindPrev#549479
<function name="FindPrev" parent="table" type="libraryfunc">
<description>
<deprecated>Instead, iterate your table with ipairs, storing the previous value and checking for the target. Non-numerically indexed tables are not ordered.</deprecated>
Returns the value positioned before the supplied value in a table. If it isn't found then the last element in the table is returned
</description>
<realm>Shared and Menu</realm>
<file line="667">lua/includes/extensions/table.lua</file>
<file line="640">lua/includes/extensions/table.lua</file>
<args>
<arg name="tbl" type="table">Table to search</arg>
<arg name="value" type="any">Value to return element before</arg>
</args>
<rets>
<ret name="" type="any">Found element</ret>
</rets>
</function>
<example>
<description>Print the previous item the value "b" of the table</description>
<code>
local tbl = {"a", "b", "c"}
print(table.FindPrev(tbl, "b"))
</code>
<output>a in console</output>
</example>