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How do I check to see if something is in a table for an if statement?

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I'm so awful with tables it's not even funny. Well, it might be to someone out there, actually.

Here's basically what the important bits of my code look like. P is defined properly in the actual code, but for the sake of brevity is not here. 

admins = {"chrono2","player1"}

p = game.Workspace.Player --blagh that's ugly

if p.Name = admins then
print(p.Name .. " is an admin!")
end
else 
print(p.Name .. " is not an admin!")
end

The script will run properly, but then fail to execute past the if statement. I guess because the name of the player doesn't equal the entire array? I've dived through the wiki, and I still have no idea what I'm doing wrong here.

Anonymous

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There is only one way you could go about solving this problem, which is a for loop

This will simply go through the table, and check if each variable is equivalent to whatever you want it to:

for i=1, #admins do
	if admins[i] == p.Name then
		--Do stuff, this will work
	end
end

Contrary to popular belief, just looking for the player name in an if statement will not work

if admins[p.Name] then
	--This will not work
end

So in conclusion, there is no was you could use just an if statement, you would need to add a for loop and place the if statement inside of it

Here is your final script:

admins = {"chrono2","player1"}

p = game.Workspace.Player --blagh that's ugly

for i=1, #admins do
	if p.Name == admins then
		print(p.Name .. " is an admin!")
	else 
		print(p.Name .. " is not an admin!")
	end	
end

I hope this helped!

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