Checking if a value is in a table

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#1

Basically i just want to check if a value equals to any value in a table. I’ll explain it a little better.

This is my script:

local tb = {"messagee", "messageee"}

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

plr.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
	local message = string.lower(msg)
	if message == #tb then
		print("Message is in the table")
	end
end)

It is not working though, i added prints into it and the error is in the if message == #tb then part, so if anyone could help me, i’d appreciate it very much.

I am not very used to using tables so that is why i am struggling with something that probably is very simple.

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#2

local tb = {“messagee”, “messageee”}

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

plr.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
local message = string.lower(msg)
if tbl[message] then
print(“Message is in the table”)
end
end)

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#3

You can simply use table.find.

local tb = {"messagee", "messageee"}

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

plr.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
	local message = string.lower(msg)
	if table.find(tb, message)
		print("Message is in the table")
	end
end)
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#4

Yeah i was thinking of using that, i just didn’t know how to it worked. Thanks!

#5

For table.find, the first parameter is the table, the second one is the string. In this case the string we want to check is “message.”

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