What is the best way to learn tables?
I would like to learn how to make a table. Tables are very important for things I want to make, so this could be very helpful. I've tried the wiki, but couldn't find it. If there is anything else other than the wiki, please send me a link or a few lines of code which include making a table, and how to remove things(such as players) from it. I say other than the wiki, because it's very hard to understand.
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This wiki documentation is here, and this is a helpful video on the subject. I'll also explain a bit on it myself.
Tables in Lua are just like your dining table in real life. Your table holds stuff. Your table will hold anything you put on it. It's the same in Lua. To create a table with scripting, we make a regular variable name followed by curly brackets.
local myTable = { } --this table is empty
Now we just put stuff in it, whether that's an object, number, string, boolean etc.
local myTable = {4, "Hello", true, workspace.Part}
To access a value, we just count. 4 is 1, Hello is 2, true is 3, and so on. This number is called the key and the actual thing in the table is called the value. The key is used to access the value. For example, you use a key to access your house. The house is the thing you want, the key is just how you get there.
We then just put the correct number (or the correct key) in brackets after the table name:
print( myTable[2] ) --> Hello
There's also ways you can change the key you want to use to get the value instead of it just being a number, but we won't go into that.
Here's some nice table manipulation functions you can learn.