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How do I Check what is inside of the table?

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so I wanted to make an explosion, and whenever it hits someone, it gets their character name, and I run a check to see if their name was already in the table, if it already was, it will not damage them. However, it does not work, and it damages them multiple times. What do I do?

script:

local part = script.Parent
local partsHit = {"hi"}
local caster = script.Caster-- the person who casted the explosion

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local charName = hit.Parent.Name
	if hum ~= nil and hum.Parent.Name ~= caster.Value then
		for i, thing in pairs(partsHit) do
			if thing ~= charName then
				hum:TakeDamage(10)
				table.insert(partsHit, #partsHit + 1, charName)
			end
		end
	end
end)
Anonymous

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try this:

local part = script.Parent
local partsHit = {}
local caster = script.Caster-- the person who casted the explosion

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local hum = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
	local charName = hit.Parent.Name
	if hum ~= nil and hum.Parent.Name ~= caster.Value then
		local isFound = table.find(partsHit,charName) ~= nil
		if isFound == false then
			print("Unknown human.... lets damage it... hue hue!!")
			hum:TakeDamage(10)
			table.insert(partsHit, #partsHit + 1, charName)
		else
			print("Found Human Friend, Time for some tea!")
		end
	end
end)

lua has an inbuilt table function named find or table.find(<Table>,<Search>,<IndexStart>) made for exactly this problem. You can read up on table functions here: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/table

Hope this helps! :~)

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