How Do You Find Something In A Table?

[fortnite_fan67154 (Winged_Earth)]

So lets just say I have one table and lets call it targets. Now I want to add a player name to targets. So I add in a player name to targets every time someone hovers over a Click detector. Now I don’t want it so that their name gets added over and over again to the table if they keep hovering over it. I want it to check if their name is already in the table. How Do I Achieve This? Sorry if I’m asking a stupid question its just something I can’t seem to figure out.

If You Know Anything About This Feel Free To Reply!

[Fimutsuu (Fimutsu)]

you can find out by doing basic research please refrain from posting before you do any research
Anyway here it is :

table.find(table,name)
-- example :
if table.find(targets,name) then
    -- the name is in the table already
 end

[Otiko_SecretBC (OtarN)]

It’s simple just try this:

local targets = {} -- Target table

local clickDetector = script.Parent.ClickDetector -- Click detector

local function hoveringMouse(player)
	if player.Name ~= table.unpack(targets) -- This tries to find player name in [target] table then
		table.insert(targets,player.Name) -- This inserts player's name in target list
		print(table.unpack(targets))
	else
		return
	end
end

clickDetector.MouseHoverEnter:Connect(hoveringMouse)

[fortnite_fan67154 (Winged_Earth)]

This does not work I don’t know why and when I remove the if statement it works again. There were no errors btw.
Here are some screenshots:
(without if statement)

(with if statement)

[fortnite_fan67154 (Winged_Earth)]

Thank you for answering my stupid quarry. The reason why I posted this was because the
table.find was not working and I did not really think of using table.unpack

Thanks