Lua choose random item from table

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Published on 2010-06-07T09:15:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 9:32 UTC
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Seems easy but I just don't get any further:

Take this example:

local myTable = { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' }
print( myTable[ math.random( 0, #myTable - 1 ) ] )

Why doesn't it work?

Google seems to have no answers on this either

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