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How to get a table's name which is in another one?

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I'm trying to get the table name with this script but it doesn't work...

local FirstTable = {SecondTable = {Hello = "Hello", Bye = Goodbye}, Lol = "Laughing Out Loud"}
print(FirstTable[1])

It prints the table itself, not the "Name" of the table, I would like to print that: SecondTable

Using tostring(FirstTable[1]) doesn't work too. Well I tried everything, anyone have a solution?

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I am about to be right back then I will answer it

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ok

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Why do you want to get the name of the table?

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Well, because it's for a model, made of multiples things, and the model is in the ServerStorage, if a script read the table and find eg. "NormalModel" it will clone it from the SS.

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The only way I can think of doing this is using the pairs function, like this:

for k, v in pairs(FirstTable) do
	print(k)
	break
end

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a better way of doing this.

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