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Relating to Indexed Values? [UNSOLVED]

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Moxeh 84

10 years ago

This is what I have so far:

local Model = script.Parent
local Settings = script.Parent.Configuration

--index defined administrators
wait()
for index, child in pairs(Settings.AdminList:GetChildren()) do
    print(index, child.Value)
--index current players
for index, child in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
    print(index, child.userId)
end
end

I need to be able to "compare" to see if the indexed children of current players have any matching userIds within the AdminList and perform an action if there is a match. How would I do this?

2 answers

Answered by

XtremeSpy 80

10 years ago

I think I know what you are saying so here is a shot at what it sounds like.

--For an admin list, I prefer to do this

adminList={
    ["Name"]=123456,
    ["Name2"]=654321
}

function checkAdmin(p)
    for i,v in pairs(adminList) do
        if p.userId==v then
            return true
        end
    end
end

--To run
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(user) --Not needed
    if checkAdmin(user) then
        print("It is an admin!")
    end
end)

Also I don't think you can redo the index,value without ending the first one.

EDIT What type of Value are you using to hold userIds? StringValue would be the best.

I understand that method, however it doesn't achieve the flexibility that it can it it can check if any value of the admin NumberValue matches the userId of a player within the server. Meant for n00bs to use without even opening the script. Those are my parameters... Moxeh 84 — 10y

Ahh, well I wouldn't know how to go through a NumberValue. XtremeSpy 80 — 10y

Answered by

Goulstem 8144

10 years ago

To see if there are any matches between two tables..

I have two suggestions for you.

Either, make a function, inside the function make a separate table which will consist of the potentially matching values. Iterate through both tables and if there's any matches then use table.insert to insert the matches into the third party table. Then return the table.

function checkMatches(tab1,tab2)
    local matches = {}
    for i,v in pairs(tab1) do
        for a,b in pairs(tab2) do
            if b == v then
                table.insert(matches,b)
            end
        end
    end
    return matches;
end

local a  = {"Hello", "Hi", 5,8,2}
local b = {8,"Derp",false,{1,2,3,4},6}

local matches = checkMatches(a,b)
print(table.concat(matches,", "))
--8

Or you could just have both table values, and use table.concat, with tostring, to check if there are any matches between them.

local a  = {"Hello", "Hi", 5,8,2}
local b = {8,"Derp",false,{1,2,3,4},6}

if table.concat(a," "):match(table.concat(b)," ") then
    print("There's a match!")
end
--There's a match!

Relating to Indexed Values? [UNSOLVED]

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