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Printing values within dictionaries?
I'm attempting to create a dictionary of player statistics, such as kills, deaths and money, but when I attempt to print said values, it returns nil. I've attempted "pcall" as well as the documentation on the ROBLOX wiki, but this was unable to help.
local myTable = {
TheHospitalDev = {
["kills"] = 10,
["deaths"] = 1,
["money"] = 10000},
OtherPlayer = {
["kills"] = 1,
["deaths"] = 10,
["money"] = 1000},
}
local function displayInfo()
for index,value in pairs(myTable) do
print(index,"has:")
print("...Kills:",myTable[value[1]])
print("...Deaths:",myTable[value[2]])
print("...Money:",myTable[value[3]])
print("Total:",myTable[value])
end
end
local success,message = pcall(displayInfo)
if success then
print("Success")
else
print("Error:",message)
end
Thank you in advance
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Your problem is how you are going about indexing the dictionary. Dictionaries have strings as indexes, not integers. This is why they are called dictionaries. You have to index it by the name of the actual index.
local myTable = {
TheHospitalDev = {
["kills"] = 10,
["deaths"] = 1,
["money"] = 10000},
OtherPlayer = {
["kills"] = 1,
["deaths"] = 10,
["money"] = 1000},
}
local function displayInfo()
for index,value in pairs(myTable) do
print(index,"has:")
print("...Kills:",value.kills) --Use actual index names
print("...Deaths:",value.deaths)
print("...Money:",value.money)
print("Total:",myTable[value])
end
end
local success,message = pcall(displayInfo)
if success then
print("Success")
else
print("Error:",message)
end