I need help with sending information on a player. I'm making a game where it is crucial for the server to know if you've died or not, and I'm trying to send a RemoteEvent from the client to the server to remove the client user's name from the table of alive players. I don't know how I can do this, because table.remove() requires you know the index number, and not the value of the index.
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Remove name from table without knowing index number?
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If you don't know the index number, you can check if the value (v) is what you're looking for and then use index i.
local alivePlayers{
"Shedletsky", "builderman", "alvinbloxx", "Sorcus"
}
-- builderman died but I don't know where he is in the table
local function removeDeadPlayer(name)
for i,v in pairs(alivePlayers) do
if v == name then -- is the value at this index what you're looking for?
table.remove(alivePlayers, i) -- number "i" notes the index
end
end
end
removeDeadPlayer("builderman")
something like that
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Thank you! I didn't think about this!
Just a quick side comment: I probably should have used "ipairs" instead of "pairs"