Can you set the an object's name to the name of a table and vice versa?

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I am making my own pet system and was wondering if there was a way I can set something like a stringvalue’s name to the name of a table, or set the name of a table to a string value’s name? When saving pet data I wanna create a new table titled the pet’s name, and when loading pet data I wanna create a new pet based on the table’s name.

  2. What is the issue?
    I don’t know if this is something that I can even accomplish. I would like to know or learn a better way to save and load pet data.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
    I haven’t been able to test anything as I don’t think this would be possible, and I am making this post for confirmation on whether it can be done or not.

#2

Tables don’t have names, so I’m not sure what you mean. What you can do however is have a global table and have mini tables within it where you can pass in the string value’s name as the unique identifier which would be its index.

local GlobalTable = {}
GlobalTable[StringValue.Name] = {}

On Loading Data: Might be convenient to use a function

local function NewPet(Pet)
    -- do whatever 
end

if GlobalTable[StringValue.Name] then
    NewPet(StringValue.Name)
end

I’m not sure if that answers you question, but just ask if you need some more clarification :slight_smile:

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#3

Hey, this is exactly what I was looking for as I don’t think my method of doing it would’ve been efficient. Also, what I meant by my question is that when you make a table, for instance: local myTable = {}, could you create an object and set its name to the table’s name? If that’s possible would there be any way I could create a table under the name of an object, but not by doing local part.Name = {} as this of course returns an error. Hope that clears up the question, I’ll mark you as solution after any potential response to the question I asked in this reply

#4

Like I mentioned before, tables don’t have names. If you wish to do this, you can just have a key represent the name in your table.

local myTable = {}
myTable.Name = ... -- set the key to whatever  
SomeObject.Name = myTable.Name

Like I said just do this, myTable[SomeObject.Name] = {}
Although your question is quite ambiguous, not too sure what you mean by ‘creating a table under the name of the object’, I assume you mean you want to have a key being the objects name, and then the value being the table?

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#5

Ok, thank you. I didn’t realize you could do this with tables and I am happy that I learned this! Thanks for your time and help, and have a great rest of your day.

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