So, right now it's a joint question. I wanted to know if you can use the comma's to make the local equal to a certain thing. For example:
local HeadshotDmg, LimbDmg, TorsoDmg = multipleArray(Settings.Damage, 3)
If so, my next question would be how would I end up doing this? This is what I got so far:
function multipleArray(array, amount)
local values = {}
for i, v in pairs(array) do
print(array[i])
-- Probably somewhere for the return over here
end
end
What you're looking for is called a tuple you can make a function return a tuple by just returning multiple values, separated by commas, and or semicolons.
function multipleArray(array)
return array[1],array[2],array[3]
--You can also use the 'unpack' function
end
local tab = {3,2,1}
local a,b,c = multipleArray(tab)
--a is now 3
--b is now 2
--c is now 1
I'm not sure how you want to use this to your advantage but here!
I found that this works best if you use the unpack function after inserting the values in a table. Thanks! Also, this was a localscript taking things from a huge array in a module script so this was to make sorting out certain values easier.
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..Lastly, why in the second code, are you using 'array[i]'? It is not necessary with that kind of 'for' loop; the Variable 'v' specify's the Current Child that is in the 'Table'.
The thing about it is that whenever I try to return anything (may it be v), it sets to nil. The array[i] part and values table were parts that I did use before while testing what could work or not. When it returns 'v' for the first time, it will not send anything else back.