Access nested Dictionary in ModuleScript

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#1

I am trying to create a standard location for game Inventory items to be able to reference them for generating a ShopUI and Player data. I created a ModuleScript with the aim of having nested disctionaries(?) within it to store information.

local Inventory = {}
local Pets = {
	["Pet1"] = {image = 12345678, cost = 10, desc =  "A pet"};
	["Pet2"] = {image = 23456789, cost = 20, desc =  "A pet"};
}
local Weapons = {
	["Gun1"] = {image = 987654321, cost = 10, desc =  "A gun"};
}
return Inventory

I thought I could then loop through the Pets to clone a form with the required details, however ambition exceeds my skills once again, as when I try to reference

local inventory = require(game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Inventory"))
local pets = inventory.Pets
print("Pets: ", pets)

The variables pets always shows as nil. I have tried creating the dictionary like so:

local Pets = {
	Pet1= {image = 12345678, cost = 10, desc =  "A pet"};
}

Neither seems to work. I just want to be able to create a variable that stores the Pets table from the ModuleScript, which I can then access to generate a Cloned form with all the details on for a Shop UI. How do I achieve this? I figure I a misunderstanding how to access that data within the module.

#2

It appears youve forgotten to put Pets and Weapons in Inventory

You could do this by simply doing:

Inventory.Pets = { ...

or

local Inventory = {
    Pets = { ...
}
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#3

This won’t work because you are not looping through the items in the table. Try using for i, v in pairs() do

Code:

This code may not look as nice as I wrote this on phone.

—- add loop below existing code and remove the print statement 
for i, pets in pairs(inventory.Pets) do
 print(“Pets: “..pets)
 —-below this you can access the table by referring to it as pets.image or something like that.
end
#4

Thanks. That’s fixed the problem so I can reference them now. I wasn’t really sure how to reference the info directly from the modulescript.

#5

Thanks for the reply. It was more the fact that the variable was showing as nil that was throwing me.