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Get the name of a function?
Hello, im trying to make admin commands but i want to know how to get the name of a function, i don't have any idea to do it, is there a way?, and if there is then how do i do it?
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Functions don't have names. They're all anonymous. Do you mean how to get the identifier (variable name, table field name) itself? User#24403 69 — 4y
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Your best bet is dictionaries.
through dictionaries you can access the index as the function's name.
dic = {}
function dic.say(arg)
print(arg)
end
dic.say('hello') --> Output: hello
now that the function is defined you can always index it or iterate through the dictionary to find it.
--indexing
print( dic[say] ) -- prints function
-- iterating
for i,v in next, dic do
print(i, v) -- i = index (say) - v = function
end