Does setting a table to another table overnight the original table?

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#1 
for _, v in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	table.insert(Settings.ALL_PLAYERS, v)
end
print(#Settings.ALL_PLAYERS) -- prints 2
Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS = Settings.ALL_PLAYERS

-- When a player dies, remove them from the ACTIVE_PLAYERS table, but they STAY in the ACTIVE_PLAYERS TABLE
character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
	for i, v in pairs(Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS) do
		if v == player then
			table.remove(Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS, i)
		end
	end
end)

-- At end of round check for all players who played that round
print(#Settings.ALL_PLAYERS) -- only prints 1
for _, player in pairs(Settings.ALL_PLAYERS) do
    print(player) -- only prints 1, prints the active player
end

So what I am doing is starting a round and killing one player, so that 1 player gets removed from the ACTIVE_PLAYERS table, however when I do a loop at the end of ALL_PLAYERS it only shows the active player. The only other time I set data inside the ALL_PLAYERS table is at the very end with

ALL_PLAYERS = {}

which runs a couple seconds after this loop (so the loop for all players runs before the all players table is reset to empty)

So my question is, because I’m setting ACTIVE_PLAYERS to == ALL_PLAYERS does that overide ALL_PLAYERS??

#2

Yes, it does overwrite. I think you should use table.insert

because it doesn’t overwrite anything

It does overwrite, but it overwrites active_players

#3

I believe it does indeed overwrite, are you trying to “clone” the array?

#4

Why does it do that tho?

If I do

local a = 1
local b = a

b = b - 1

print(a)

It should print 1 right? As I’m not setting a to b, I’m setting b to a

#5

Basically, ACTIVE_PLAYERS should equal ALL_PLAYERS at the start. ALL_PLAYERS should remain constant throughout the game. ACTIVE_PLAYERS is the one that gets values removed, as it only contians the active players in game

#6

Yes, it would, but here’s a quick example:

local a = 1
local b = 100
print(b)-- prints 100
b = a
print(b)-- prints 1

oh and I found something:

maybe because there is only one player in the game? Are you testing this in multiplayer?

#7 
local Array1 = {"John","Sarah","Ann"}
local Array2 = {"Nick","Carl","Dre"}

Array2 = Array1

table.remove(Array2, 2) -- shoould remove "sarah"

for k,v in pairs(Array1) do
print(k,v)
end

for k,v in pairs(Array2) do
print(k,v)
end

This removes Sarah from BOTH arrays.

#8

Testing multiplayer, and both players are in game.

#9

Yes i believe it does override the ALL_PLAYERS tables, (as mentioned above) in fact i believe it just sets the tables to the same table so when you were to remove a value from All_Players, ACTIVE_PLAYERSthe value will also get removed from that tables aswell

i use this sometimes for cloning tables

function NewTable(...)
	local NewTable = {}
	local Args = ...
	if typeof(Args) ~= "table" then
		Args = {...}
	end
	for _, val in pairs(Args) do
		table.insert(NewTable, val)
	end
 return NewTable
end

local Table = {5,3}
local Table2 = {2,1}

Table = NewTable(Table2)

table.insert(Table,9)
 
for i,v in pairs(Table2) do
 print(v) --- would print 2 and 1
end
#10

Here’s my theory, you joined at different times, and unless you added a characteradded/playeradded event, there will theoretically only be 1 player in it at all times

#11

Not joining at different times.

for _, v in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
	table.insert(Settings.ALL_PLAYERS, v)
end
print(#Settings.ALL_PLAYERS) -- prints 2
Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS = Settings.ALL_PLAYERS

-- When a player dies, remove them from the ACTIVE_PLAYERS table, but they STAY in the ACTIVE_PLAYERS TABLE
character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
	for i, v in pairs(Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS) do
		if v == player then
			table.remove(Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS, i)
		end
	end
end)

-- At end of round check for all players who played that round
print(#Settings.ALL_PLAYERS) -- only prints 1
for _, player in pairs(Settings.ALL_PLAYERS) do
    print(player) -- only prints 1, prints the active player
end

As mentioned, the ALL_PLAYERS print 2, so there are 2 players in it

#12

Instead of like this,
Settings.ACTIVE_PLAYERS = Settings.ALL_PLAYERS
and by doing so editing both arrays (as seen in the sarah example above),

try to simply loop through the ALL_PLAYERS and table.insert() each value into ACTIVE_PLAYERS.

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