Why are my tables not working as expected?
I am working on a round based game and am storing player "states" in tables. I am able to insert players into the table with the AddPlayerToTable function but when it looks for the player in the table it is unable to find it. Returning nil.
I'm not really sure why this is the case, my best guess is when I add the player to the table (using val) it is creating a separate table to place the player in instead of the one defined in Tables.
Any help on this issue is appreciated.
Tables
local Tables = {
Playing = {},
CurrentPlayers = {},
DeadPlayers = {}
}
Function for adding players to the table
--val = Playing
function module:AddPlayerToTable(player,val)--val is the table to edit
if Tables[val] then
if not Tables[val][player] then
table.insert(Tables[val],player)
end
end
end
Function for finding if player is in the table
--val = Playing
function module:PlayerIsInTable(player,val)
if Tables[val] then
if Tables[val][player] then
return true
end
end
print('not in table')
return nil
end
1 answer
You're problem lies with how the PlayerIsInTable function checks to see if the player is there. The values inside a table are identifiable using a key, if not specified a key, which is usually the case when using table.insert, the key is the position it is in in the table.
So, the reason your function can't find the value, the player, in the table, is because the player object you are using to find the value, the player, isn't used. How do we fix this then?
Since you don't know where slot the player is being saved to inside Tables[val], you have to go through each value inside that table and see if that value is the player.
--val = Playing
function module:PlayerIsInTable(player,val)
if Tables[val] then
for _,v in pairs(Tables[val]) do
if v==player then
return true
end
end
end
print('not in table')
return nil
end