I'm making a table and I would like to make a variable from a string...
local STRING_NAME = "Test1"
local MyTable = {
STRING_NAME = "Hello World"
}
Well I know that I can write Test1 = "Hello World", but the problem is that I need to make the variable name from the string itself because I need to insert a table inside a table like that:
local FirstTable = {MyTable = {STRING_NAME = "Hello World"}, game.Workspace.Part}
Well, if anyone know how I can do this, thanks.
There are two ways you can add an entry to a table with a variable index:
Define it when you create the table:
local MyTable = {[STRING_NAME]= "Hello World"}
Add it after the table is already created:
MyTable[STRING_NAME] = "Hello World!"
Enclosing something in square brackets will have the table compute whatever is inside those brackets before using it. That means you can also do something like this:
function test()
return "a"
end
local MyTable = {[test()] = 3}
and if you print the table out, you'll see that MyTable has an entry named "a" with a value of 3.
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