local presentMesh = {66887781 = {189748284}, 1237207}
There is an example of what I want, but it doesn't work. I want the "66887781" to equal multiple values, but still be a table. Help, thanks!
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How would you make a 'table within a table'?
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You could essentially keep as many tables as you want in a table.
Here's an example:
local menu = {
[1] = {"Burger", 3.50},
[2] = {"Fries", 2},
[3] = {"Soda", 1.99}
}
And if you wanted to store multiple tables inside each other, you could do this:
local menu = {
["Meals"] = {
["Number 1"] = {"Cheeseburger", "Fries", "Drink", 8},
["Number 7"] = {"Hamburger", "Fries", "Drink", 7},
["Number 18"] = {"Veggie", "Fries", "Drink", 6.50}
}
}
Hope this helped.
Tables are a what they sound like, a list of values or a table of values. Tables can hold any piece of information, including other tables.
If what your saying is what i think your saying, you would use the following;
table1 = {}
Table 1 is your first table. You can store anything inside of it.
table1 = { table2 = {"Value 1", "Value2"} }
Table 1, contains a table called table 2. Table 2 contains 2 values, value 1 and value 2
Lets say value 1 and value 2 equal, 1 and 2.
table1 = {table2 = { 1 , 2 } }
You can edit the value of 1 and 2 inside of table two by doing the following;
Example1;
table1.table2[1] = 5
Example2;
table1.Table[2] = 8
another example is;
Orange = {Apple = { "Mango" , "Bananna" } } ------------ Very creative ;) lol
Again, you can edit the contents of apple by doing the following;
Orange.Apple[1] = "SomeOtherFruit"
The [1] is the place value of the item within the table, say there are 5 items, and you want to edit the 4th, you would use [4]
Note; From my experience, i may be wrong, for example, table1 = { table2={} }, if you request the number of items within table1, it would return 0 or nil.
In this case,
table1 = { table2={},"Example"},
it will return 1, a table inside of a table is not counted, but the contents of the 2nd table will be counted for the number of items requested for the seccond table.
One last thing;
Orange = { Apple = {"Banana","Mango"} }
If you want to edit the table, say change Apple to another table, aka the contents of apple you can do the following; Table2 = {"Nothing","Fruits are gross"}
Orange.Apple = Table2
It will return like so;
Orange = { Apple = {"Nothing","Fruits are gross"}}
Sorry for hogging your time, but i'd just thought i'd give you my knowlage on how tables work as it might help out in the future.
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Lol i feel like something is missing, but it has worked for me since i started using tables, and i constantly use them.
'table1.table2[key]' is the same as 'table[table2][key]' as it just a different way of indexing tables. This is often comes in handy when working with userdata objects, eg:' 'part.BrickColor == part["BrickColor"]'
"I'm pretty sure that's not how you index tables" - Why does somebody who knows little about tables try to talk about tables?
Calm down. I hadn't seen any documentation showing that that was possible so I assumed it wasn't. I did some testing and realized I was wrong, and deleted the comment. No harm done.
Now im confused.... am i right or am i wrong? should i have not said this? or are my ways inefficient? damn..
@TriickXzoniQ nope, your way works just fine, I was just being an idiot.
Lol you aren't a idiot, everyone makes mistakes, thanks for telling me though.