Attempt to call nil value when adding a player to a table

[13socks (finn)]

I’m trying to make a housing system in a game I’m working on where when a player buys a house they are added to a table of all players that have bought a house so they can’t buy a second house.

When I test my script in game it returns this error: ServerScriptService.HouseOwnersTable:12: attempt to call a nil value - Server - HouseOwnersTable:12
I know it’s a problem with how I’m doing the table because I had the script print(plr) at the top to make sure it was properly receiving that info so I know the “nil value” in question is the table

I’ve looked everywhere and even watched videos about how to do tables for beginners but still can’t find a solution

here’s the code:

local homeownerslist = {}

game.ReplicatedStorage.HouseTable.Event:Connect(function(plr, isitownedinfo)

print(plr)
	if isitownedinfo == true then
		homeownerslist.remove(homeownerslist, plr)
		return
	end
	
	if isitownedinfo == false then
		homeownerslist.insert(homeownerslist,plr)
	print("added plr")
	return
	end
end)

Thanks in advance!

[Xr4Th_0g (Xr4Th)]

try using this

table.insert(homeownerslist, plr)

hope this helps

[TheLastPanda77 (Panda)]

I may be incorrect, but I believe if you write homeownerslist.remove() you don’t need to pass home ownerslist again because you already “passed” it. Like the reply above mine, try doing table.insert(homeownerslist, plr).

[quequi12345]

Here is the documentation:

Tablas | Documentación del Centro de creación de Roblox

​Tables do not inherently contain functions like insert or remove. Those functions belong to the global table library. Therefore, you cannot do this:

local someTable = {}
someTable.insert() -- This will cause an error
someTable.remove() -- This will cause an error

Instead, you should pass the table as the first argument to the library functions like this:

local someTable = {}
table.insert(someTable, something)
table.remove(someTable, somethingPosition)

To remove an item by its value rather than its index, you first need to find its position using table.find():

local someTable = {"apple", "banana", "orange"}
local position = table.find(someTable, "banana")

if position then
    table.remove(someTable, position)
end