Searching tables is broken? (for i = 1, #TABLE do)
Ok, well, I am trying to do a command in table thing where when you chat, it checks to see if any of the commands in the commands table match the chat, but it doesn't even try searching the table, just breaks at that point.
local Commands = {
Message = {Text=Prefix.."sm",Module=IM.Message,HasRecipt=false,HasMessage=true},
}
Stuff later...
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player)
print("player")
Player.Chatted:connect(function(Chat)
print("chat")
for i = 1, #Commands do
print("checking")
end
end)
end)
Tried this too...
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player)
print("player")
Player.Chatted:connect(function(Chat)
print("chat")
for i,v in ipairs(Commands) do
print("checking")
end
end)
end)
It stops at "chat" and doesn't print "checking".
2 answers
You are using ipairs as an iterator. ipairs skips values in a table that have non-numerical indexes. ipairs also stops iterating when it reaches a value that is nil. In your table the index is Message which is not a numerical value.
In this example the value 90 is not printed because its index is non numerical.
for _,n in ipairs({bob = 90; 80}) do
print(n)
end
The # operator operates similarly. The operator returns the amount of values with numerical indexes.
for i = 1, #Commands do
print("checking")
end
Is actually
for i = 1, 0 do
print("checking")
end
To fix this you can use the pairs iterator which will iterate over all indexes.
for i,v in pairs(Commands) do
print("checking")
end
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Your Problem
If your table is set up as a dictionary, like you have, then the # operator will always return 0. Because this will return 0 then your for loop will iterate 0 times, and never run your code inside the for loop.
How to fix
There are two ways you can do this. One, you can make a function to iterate through the whole table, counting the index and make it return the count, then call this function.
local Commands = {
Message = {
Text = Prefix.."sm",
Module = IM.Message,
HasRecipt = false,
HasMessage = true
}
}
function num(tab)
local n = 0
for i,v in pairs(tab) do
n = n + 1
end
return n
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(Player)
Player.Chatted:connect(function(Chat)
for i = 1, num(Commands) do
print("checking")
end
end)
end)
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