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When/What are some useful ways to use tables?
I understand how tables work and mostly everything about them, but I've just never come across a time where I needed to use them in scripts. I feel like there's probably somewhere in my scripts where instead of doing what I did, I could use a table and make things a lot easier and organized.
So I guess it'd be nice to include some examples that you've used tables in your scripts so I can get a better understanding of when to use tables for mine.
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I will show you an example where you might need a table.
Let's say you had a group of parts. But you have multiple parts that you want to run code on. The other parts you don't. You'd do something like if part.Name == "Name1" or part.Name == "Name2" then, but that can get very messy. You'd use a type of table called a dictionary.
local parts = {
["Part1"] = true, -- you'd put the name of the part in between the [""]
["Part2"] = true,
["Part3"] = true,
["Part4"] = true,
["Part5"] = true
}
local children = workspace.Model:GetChildren() -- an example
for _, child in pairs(children) do -- loop through children
if child:IsA("BasePart") then -- check if they're a part
if parts[child.Name] then -- if their name is in the dictionary!
child.BrickColor = BrickColor.Red()
child.Transparency = 0.375
child.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
end
end
end