How do you store ALL parts of gps.locate?

[Allaark]

How exactly do you actually store the result of gps.locate()? I'm trying to get an understanding of how that works before working on something that properly requires it, but i can only ever get the X coordinate into a variable. How does one get the later two results?

Some code that i wrote to try and get gps.locate() down before starting on a project proper, shared for the purpose of asking what went wrong:

local location = {X=0, Y=0, Z=0}
for i = 1, 3 do
   location[i] = gps.locate()
   print(location[i])
end 

[Wojbie]

gps.locate function returns multiple values, you can either store it by having multiple assigment, or by packing them into table.
so for example:

local x,y,z = gps.locate()

or

local pos = {gps.locate()}

[Allaark]

Thanks, that answers my main question, but i do have a second, more pedantic question:
if i, say, pre-filled a table with empty variables, THEN did

preFilledTable = gps.locate()

would that fill the existing variables in the pre-filled table, or would it completely over-write the table?

[Wojbie]

preFilledTable = gps.locate()

would replace the table in preFilledTable variable with a number from first coordinate.

preFilledTable = {gps.locate()}

would replace the table in preFilledTable variable with a new table containing all 3 returns in positions 1, 2 and 3

preFilledTable.x, preFilledTable.y, preFilledTable.z = gps.locate()

would put 3 returns from gps.locate into keys x, y and z of table stored in preFilledTable variable

[Allaark]

Thanks! was just concerned, since i dont know what coordinates would be where if i just out-right overwrote the table