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Is there a way to store a table inside a player's folder?

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Mast3rStRix 43

4 years ago

Edited 4 years ago

I basically have this script: is there a way i could have a table as a value? any way to do that?

01local function joined(player)
02    local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder",player)
03    leaderstats.Name = 'table'
04 
05    local items = Instance.new("IntValue",leaderstats)
06    items.Name = "Items"
07    items.Value = t{'item1','item2','item6'}
08 
09end
10 
11game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(joined)

thanks for your time!

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SteelMettle1 394

4 years ago

Most scripters opt against storing values in instances: Storing values in the player: good or bad

Instead, values are contained within code keyed on the player's ID/Name:

Server Script

01--This is example code of a server script inside ServerScriptService
02 
03--Just initializing the userData at a high scope so all the functions can access it
04local userData = {}
05--Get the players service
06local players = game:GetService("Players")
07 
08--This function is ran only once for each player that joins the game
09local function joined(player)
10 
11    --Each player is given their own table/subTables
12    --Included the Coins key just as another example of defaulting the value
13    userData[player.Name] = {
14        ["Items"] = {};
15        ["Coins"] = 0
16    }
17    --Just an example of how to access the table
18    userData[player.Name].Items = {"item1", "item2", "item6"}
19    userData[player.Name].Coins = 500
20    --[[The table now looks like this if you and I joined the game:
21    userData = {
22        ["Mast3rStRix"] = {
23            ["Items"] = {"item1", "item2", "item6"};
24            ["Coins"] = 500
25        };
26        ["SteelMettle1"] = {
27            ["Items"] = {"item1", "item2", "item6"};
28            ["Coins"] = 500
29        };
30    }
31]]
32end
33 
34--Only runs once when the player leaves the game
35players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
36    --Set the player's key to nil so we don't have any nasty memory leaks
37    --Obviously don't do this until any data that needs to be saved is saved
38    userData[player.Name] = nil
39end)
40 
41--Hook the joinedfunction to the PlayerAdded event
42players.PlayerAdded:Connect(joined)
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You can then easily use userData to access any user data you've defined all from one place. You can even turn it into a module script and return specified values as-needed which are up-to-date. If the client needs the information, then simply send the information over using a remote. I hope this helps, I tried to be as informative as possible

Oh wow This is really helpful for me!!! Im going to use this method instead. Im also going to use it for DataStores! Thank you so much! Have a great day! Mast3rStRix 43 — 4y

Yeah data store methods are much better! :) You can make your own (there's a great tutorial in the guides section) or you can try DataStore2 which you can download/get from the workshop :) AlexTheCreator 461 — 4y

No problem at all! You're absolutely right to use this for DataStores since it's a partial example of caching the data. SteelMettle1 394 — 4y

Answered by

marfit 104

4 years ago

No. In Roblox, putting a table into something like this only gives you "Table:" and then the table's memory address. You'd be better off dividing that "Table" section in your leaderstats into the three different sections and put each value into one.

You can also run this code and turn the table into a continuous string.

1local TableString = ""
2 
3for _,v in ipairs(Table) do
4    TableString = TableString..v.." "
5end
6 
7print(TableString)

Thanks ! Mast3rStRix 43 — 4y

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