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Question about tables?
banlist = {Player1 = true} -- why does this work, isn't it supposed to be a string?
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
repeat wait() until player.Character
if banlist[player.Name] then
player:Kick("You have been banned from this game due to hacking activities :(")
end
end)
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Because to the script, Player1 is the index value. Which you do end up searching for when you index banlist on line 5. M39a9am3R 3210 — 7y
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Does it work for everything or just usernames? Could it work for part names too if it wasn't a ban script? Heavening 10 — 7y
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What you are doing is dictionaries. In a dictionary table, there is a key and a value. The key indexes the dictionary to get the value, example:
local PlayerInfo = {
Name = "TheLowOne",
Age = 99,
Job = "Sitting at home"
}--Dictionary
print(PlayerInfo.Name) -->TheLowOne
print(PlayerInfo.Age) -->99
print(PlayerInfo.Job) -->Job
Another way of constructing the table is
local PlayerInfo = {
["Name"] = "TheLowOne",
["Age"] = 99,
["Job"] = "Sitting at home"
}
Dictionaries are not limited to only stringed keys, it can be any non nil value
local Switch = {
[true]=false,
[false]=true
}--in this example, booleans are the key, and booleans are value
print(Switch[true]) -->false
print(Switch[false]) -->true
More information at http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Table#Dictionaries
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Lua provides a convenient sugar for tables. Since you often want to make properties, and it's nice to use .property instead of [somevalue], Lua automatically converts .property into ["property"]:
local obj = {}
obj.foo = 10
print(obj["foo"]) --> 10 using `.` is the same as indexing by a string
obj["foo"] = 15
print(obj.foo) --> 15
They provide a similar sugar for table literals:
local obj = {
foo = 5,
["bar"] = 10,
}
print(obj["foo"]) --> 5
print(obj.bar) --> 10
Careful
Be aware that using [] without the quotes is a very different operation:
local property = "cat"
local obj = {
[property] = 5
}
print(obj.property) --> nil
print(obj["cat"]) --> 5 -- this is where it was stored!
print(obj.cat) --> 5 -- further underscoring that `obj["cat"]` is the same as `obj.cat`
print(obj[property]) --> 5 -- since `property` as a variable has the value `"cat"`