How do I merge these two tables?

[Lesteryoung]

local fontStrings = {
    PlayerName,
 
    TargetFrameTextureFrameName,
    TargetFrameTextureFrameDeadText,
 
    FocusFrameTextureFrameName,
    FocusFrameTextureFrameDeadText
}
 
for _, v in pairs(fontStrings) do
    v:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 10, "OUTLINE")
    v:SetShadowOffset(0, 0)
    v:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)
end
 
local fontStrings = {
    TargetFrameToTTextureFrameName,
    FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName
}
 
for _, v in pairs(fontStrings) do
    v:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)
end

As you can see, I want the top table to do the following but I only want the bottom part to set the text color. Is this the right way to do what I'm doing? It doesn't seem correct to make a new table.

[MunkDev]

local fontStrings = {
    PlayerName, -- 1
 
    TargetFrameTextureFrameName, -- 2
    TargetFrameTextureFrameDeadText, -- 3
 
    FocusFrameTextureFrameName, -- 4
    FocusFrameTextureFrameDeadText, -- 5
 
    TargetFrameToTTextureFrameName, -- 6
    FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName, -- 7
}
 
for k, v in pairs(fontStrings) do
    if k < 6 then
        v:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 10, "OUTLINE")
        v:SetShadowOffset(0, 0)
    end
    v:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)
end

or...

local fontStrings = {
    PlayerName,
 
    TargetFrameTextureFrameName,
    TargetFrameTextureFrameDeadText,
 
    FocusFrameTextureFrameName,
    FocusFrameTextureFrameDeadText
}
 
for _, v in pairs(fontStrings) do
    v:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 10, "OUTLINE")
    v:SetShadowOffset(0, 0)
end
 
tinsert(fontStrings, TargetFrameToTTextureFrameName)
tinsert(fontStrings, FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName)
 
for _, v in pairs(fontStrings) do
    v:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)
end

[semlar]

If you only have 2 cases you want treated separately, the shortest and simplest solution is to just call SetTextColor on those 2 font strings directly.

[Lesteryoung]

If you SetTextColor directly, are you supposed to make the fontstring local, like:

local FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)

[semlar]

Originally Posted by Lesteryoung If you SetTextColor directly, are you supposed to make the fontstring local, like: local FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)

There's no need to make local references to them, you can just use the name of the strings:

TargetFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)
FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by Lesteryoung If you SetTextColor directly, are you supposed to make the fontstring local, like: local FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)

Originally Posted by semlar There's no need to make local references to them, you can just use the name of the strings: TargetFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0) FocusFrameToTTextureFrameName:SetTextColor(1,.92,0)

That also isn't valid Lua syntax. You use local for variable declaration, not for expressions.