How can I insert index into table as a string?

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#1

I am trying to make some sort of anti exploits for events that only fires once when player is not in main menu so I am trying to add player names into the table, but I don’t want their index to be as a number I want it to be as a string so it’s like this

local Players = {
["Classes"] = Player1,
["Classes"] = Player2,
["Classes"] = Player3,
["Uniforms"] = Player4,
["Classes"] = Player5,
["Hats"] = Player6,
}

How can I do that with table insert? or how do I insert the player names into a table with index being a string and not number?

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#2

Idk how to do it with table.insert but you can just add a new value doing this

Players["IndexName"] = Player

and it will just add a new index with the other ones. I hope this helps

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#3

Thanks for the reply, I have tried this method but it resets everytime new player fires the event I want every player in the game to have their name in the table and remove their name whenever I want

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#4

It resets the other ones in the table ?

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#5

Yeah because when I do

print(Players)

it only shows one player name

“Players” is the table of where I am inserting their name into

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#6

This is maybe because when you try to add a player you use the same index as the others thus when using Players["Class"] = Player you’re actually changing the other index and not creating a new one

#7

That make sense for me but how can I create a new index instead of changing?

#8

You can’t add the same keys in a dicationnary you will need a different one plus table.insert only works for arrays

#9

Is there any alternative methods? to store player names with string index?

#10

It seems like you have multiple indexes with the same name.
Tables indexes must be unique and cannot be the same or it’ll overwrite something that already exists or prevent you from properly indexing it.

Try something like this:

local Players = {}

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
  Players[player.Name] = player
end)

Because Players[player.Name] doesn’t exist yet, it is created and has it’s value set to the player object.
This what you were looking for?

#11

Well there is a quite problem since there are like different remote events so I don’t think it’s possible they will have different values

because the table I wanted could have been also like this

local Players = {
["Classes"] = Player1,
["Hats"] = Player1,
["Uniforms"] = Player1,
["Uniforms"] = Player2,
["Classes"] = Player2,
["Hats"] = Player3,
}

Unless if I can add multiple values into the index

#12

This seems like a pretty unstructured way of keeping track of data if I gotta be honest.

To me it looks like you’re storing mixed and various kinds of objects and data in an table.
Would it’s help to structure it more like this instead?

local playerData = {
  ["Player1"] = {
    ["Hats"] = {};
    ["Uniforms"] = {};
    ["Classes"] = {};
  };
  ["Player2"] = {
    ["Hats"] = {};
    ["Uniforms"] = {};
    ["Classes"] = {};
  };
  ["Player3"] = {
    ["Hats"] = {};
    ["Uniforms"] = {};
    ["Classes"] = {};
  };
}

Here’s a more ordered and structured way of keeping player data in a table.
The way it is currently done seems a bit chaotic and inconvenient to say the least.

This may help you and save you a lot of headaches later on.

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#13

That actually looks very great how can I do it with scripting instead of manually?

#14

You need an overarching table to store the players’ details.

local playerAccessories = {}

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    playerAccessories[player] = {} -- these are the player's accessories
end)

...:Connect(function()
    playerAccessories[player]["Hats"] = "wowow" -- We can now set individual details of the player's accessories.
end)

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    playerAccessories[player] = nil -- remove it to prevent a memory leak
end)

Hope this helped!

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#15

Hello, I actually wanted it to be look like this

local playerData = {
  ["Player1"] = {
    ["Hats"] = {};
    ["Uniforms"] = {};
    ["Classes"] = {};
  };
  ["Player2"] = {
    ["Hats"] = {};
    ["Uniforms"] = {};
    ["Classes"] = {};
  };
  ["Player3"] = {
    ["Hats"] = {};
    ["Uniforms"] = {};
    ["Classes"] = {};
  };
}

like the other reply that was above the method you are telling me is to only modify [“Hats”] but I don’t want to modify it I want to add multiple data for a player without modifying any of them

this is my current script:

local Players = {} -- Player names

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	Players[player] = {}
end)

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	if Players[player] then
		Players[player] = nil
	end
end)

function PlayerNames.RemovePlayerName(EventName, player)
	for i,v in pairs(Players) do
		if player == i then
			Players[player] = nil
			print(Players)
			print("Removed player from the List")
		end
	end
end

function PlayerNames.AddPlayerName(EventName, player)
	Players[player] = EventName
	print(Players)
end

function PlayerNames.CheckInTheTable(EventName, player)
	for i,v in pairs(Players) do
		if player == i and EventName == v then
			return true			
		end
	end
end

and this is the output

  23:08:43.084   ▼  {
                    ["xxibadrxx"] = "Classes"
                 }  -  Server - PlayerNames:33
  23:08:43.085   ▼  {
                    ["xxibadrxx"] = "Uniform"
                 }  -  Server - PlayerNames:33

So basically it only changed the variable and did not add new one

#16

if you want to change values in the table using the player names or user ids, replace

Players[player] = {}

with either

Players[player.Name] = {}

or

Players[player.UserId] = {}

Also every reference of Players[player] would need to be changed to Players[player.Name] or Players[player.UserId] depending on the context.

#17

I forgot to mention that player equals to player.Name since this script is part of a ModuleScript and when server scripts require the module and call function it directly sends player.Name. so this is not gonna change anything at all

#18

Even if that is true,

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	Players[player] = {}
end)

This piece of code is setting the player instance value in the table to an empty table.
You would need to fix this and put

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	Players[player.Name] = {}
end)

And also change

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	if Players[player] then
		Players[player] = nil
	end
end)

into

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	if Players[player.Name] then
		Players[player.Name] = nil
	end
end)
#19

Oh you meant for those yeah I realized where is the mistake

#20

image

It’s the same thing I changed it