Calling a function through indexing a table

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#1

Hey. I’m stumped on this topic, even though I’m thinking it should be simple. What I need to accomplish is to call a function (which is in a table) through indexing. If someone could help me with this, that’d be much appreciated!

How the function looks in the table:

local Table = {
    foo = function(x)
        
    end;
}

How I’m currently trying to call it:

Table[math.random(#Table)](x) -- Randomised index
Table[1](x) -- Predetermined index
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#3

Yeah, I’m trying to call it like that, just through indexing the function.

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#4

you cannot get a random number between nothing and #Table, there have to be two (integer) bounds while using math.random; try
– but math.random(#t) works in cases where t = not 0 because while doing math.random(#t) , 1 is automatically passed as the first bound

  local Table = {
    foo = function(x)
       return print(x)        
    end;
}

 local m = math.random(1, #Table)
 Table[m]("abc")
#5

I’m pretty sure you can, as I’ve done it before previously when indexing a table with math.random with normal variables. I’ll try doing it your way and see if it changes anything.

#6

#Table might return 0 if you have table_var = {} and that would be an index out of bounds error…

#7 
local succ, err = pcall(Table[math.random(1,#Table)], var1, var2, ...)
if not succ then warn(err); end;

Edited after @XxELECTROFUSIONxX said that it wouldn’t handle errors.

#9

I was just saying an easy way to fire the function when indexing the table. Wasn’t saying, “do this code with no modifications what so ever”

#10

I should also mention my error, sorry about forgetting to mention it:

bad argument #1 (interval is empty)

That hopefully should make it easier to pinpoint for you all. Though I’m not sure why it would consider the length of the table empty.

#11

You can’t do the math.random(1, #t) idiom for getting a random key-value pair from a dictionary.

I am pretty sure using next would work since a table’s dictionary part has no inherent order

local _, f = next(Table)
f()
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#12

Gonna test this theory real fast for you.

Edit: Tested, only prints the first one in a table with 3 values.
If I’m not mistaken pairs and/or ipairs uses next to iterate through it to get the values.

#13

Is the error coming from the #Table or from the math.random(#Table) ?

#14

That works, thank you, now I just need to apply that to randomising.

#15

It was coming from math.random(#Table).

#16

Yeah that seems to be the case.

What can instead be done is having an array of functions only.

local Table = {
    function() print("bar") end,
    function() print("foo") end 
}

Table[math.random(#Table)]()
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#17

Oh wow. I didn’t think it would’ve been that simple. Thank you, kind stranger!