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How to add a value with key to a dictionary with the same key???
So what I mean is,
local dictionary = {
["Thing1"] = {"yuh"},
["Thing2"] = {"Harambe"}
["Thing3"] = {"Trump cheeto"}
}
suppose I have that, what if i wanted to add another "Thing3" to the dictionary, resulting like this:
local dictionary = {
["Thing1"] = {"yuh"},
["Thing2"] = {"Harambe"}
["Thing3"] = {"Trump cheeto"}
["Thing3"] = {"Trump the orang"}
}
Is it possible to do this? Is there a way around this?
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accept my answer fat it's better User#24403 69 — 4y
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No, you can't add two of the same key to a table. You could however make its value a table with the elements you want. Here's an example of that:
local dictionary = {
["Thing1"] = "yuh",
["Thing2"] = "Harambe"
["Thing3"] = {"Trump cheeto", "Trump the orang"}
}
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You know what, you gave me an idea, if I make 2 tales inside the single table for the key, I will successfully be able to make it look like i have 2 keys!!! greatneil80 2647 — 4y
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No. It is not.
Duplicate keys aren't possible. Lua will only use one of those key-value pairs. It wouldn't make sense for duplicates to be possible as there could be ambiguities.
Even if you try something like this:
local t = {a = 1}
t.a = 2
a field is overwritten, it now contains 2.
If you want, you can just add on to the {"Trump cheeto"} table.
table.insert(dictionary.Thing3, "Trump the orang")