Is it possible to insert a variable name into a table?

local Pets = {}
local Dog = "Woofy."
table.insert(Pets,Dog)

-- Now I can do:
print(Pets.Dog)
-- Output is Woofy.

Is that possible? How?

You can use a dictionary for this:

local Pets = {}
Pets.Dog = "Woofy"

print(Pets.Dog)

Do you mean like this? Here I store random words into the table with myTable[someString] = someString If you're using random words then it'll be hard to use the Dot Operator unless you know what the Key was.

local Pets = {}
math.randomseed(tick())

local function StoreNewPet(pet)
	--Inserting variable name into table. Well not quite.
	--You can't actually put the variable name in the table but you can put a string of what you want the variable name to be
	Pets[pet] = pet
end

local function PrintPets()
	for key,pet in pairs(Pets) do
		print(key .. " is " .. pet)
	end
end

--48 to 122
local function MakeRandomWord()
	local word = ""

	word = string.char(math.random(48,122)) .. string.char(math.random(48,122)) .. string.char(math.random(48,122)) .. string.char(math.random(48,122))	
	return word
end

StoreNewPet(MakeRandomWord())
StoreNewPet(MakeRandomWord())
StoreNewPet(MakeRandomWord())
StoreNewPet(MakeRandomWord())
StoreNewPet("Fishhhies") --"Fishhhies is Fishhhies"
PrintPets()
print("Dot operator: " .. Pets.Fishhhies) --"Dot operator: Fishhhies"