I was wondering why is line 12 printing "nil" when I do line 13 it prints there name,why and how do I fix it?
Items = {"Bob","Tod","Josh"}
function ChangedParts()
ChangedItems = {}
for i,v in pairs (Items) do
local Part = Instance.new("Part",workspace)
Part.Name = "New"..tostring(v)
ChangedItems[v] = Part
end
return ChangedItems
end
Parts = ChangedParts()
print(Parts[1])--nil?
for i,v in pairs (Parts) do
print(v)
end
v is the current value from the table, and i is the current index. When you have a table followed by brackets, inside those brackets must be a number. It has to be a number because it takes that number and gives you the value from the table corresponding with that number. Therefore when you do ChangedItems[v] = Part on line 07, it won't work because you are putting a value inside the brackets instead of a number.
ChangedItems[i] = Part
This should work, since i is the current index. However, the best way to add a value to a table would be to use table.insert().
table.insert(ChangedItems,Part)
Hope I helped!
No idea what went wrong but it prints nil because nothing's in "Parts." If you get the length of the table through #Parts, it shows up as 0.
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In short, you saved the new part as "Bob", "Tod", and "Josh". You are looking for "1". That's why it's nill.
I only did this way because I heard it's the easiest way to store single instances :p