Extremely weird ModuleScript behaviour

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So, I am doing a commission for a person, and I am making a quest system. I am basically creating a simple “text reader” which just shows text on a GUI. But, for some reason when I grab data from the module script, the dictionary is not sorted the same way it’s sorted in the module script.
Visual:


Module script:

local Quests = {
	[1] = {
		["Lines"] = {
			["line1"] = "Welcome to BloxRim!",
			["Line2"] = "Your first task it going to be to kill a dummy.",
			["Line3"] = "Good luck!"
		},
		["Tasks"] = {
			["kill"] = "Dummy",
			["amount"] = 1
		}
	}
}

return Quests

Local script:

local QuestList = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.QuestList)
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

for i, val in pairs(QuestList[plr.QuestFolder.QuestNumber.Value]["Lines"]) do
	
	for i = 0, #val, 1 do
		script.Parent.QuestText.Text = string.sub(val, 0, i)
		wait(0.05)
	end
	
	wait(2)
end

Any help would be appreciated

2

I’m not sure if this is true, but generic for loops seem to be rather random on their choices.

Try looping through it with a numerical for loop. Like so:

local QuestList = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.QuestList)
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Lines = QuestList[plr.QuestFolder.QuestNumber.Value]["Lines"]

for LineIndex = 1, #Lines do
	local Line = Lines[LineIndex]

	for LetterIndex = 0, Line:len(), 1 do
		script.Parent.QuestText.Text = Line:sub(0, LetterIndex)
		wait(0.05)
	end
	
	wait(2)
end

Note: I won’t be available after the time of making this edit. I’ve got to sleep. Someone else will have to help you instead.

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3

Okay, I’ll try. But still, why is the core array in my computer’s RAM ordered differently that in my module script

4

Why make Lines a dictionary? Just convert it into an array* and use ipairs to iterate over it in the correct order (pairs iterates out of order).

*like so:

Lines = {
	"Welcome to BloxRim!",
	"Your first task it going to be to kill a dummy.",
	"Good luck!"
}
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5

Dictionaries doesn’t have a sorted index like array do. So the order most certainly will be mixed. And as other’s have said, you don’t need a dictionary for this use case, an array will be more than enough.

6

Tables with non-numerical indexes (i.e., no arrays) do not keep any order, so when you iterate through them the process seems random. Instead you can do something like this:

local QuestList = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.QuestList)
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local lines = QuestList[plr.QuestFolder.QuestNumber.Value]["Lines"]

for i = 1, 3 do
    local line = lines["Line" .. tostring(i)]

    for i = 0, #line, 1 do
		script.Parent.QuestText.Text = string.sub(line, 0, i)
		wait(0.05)
    end

    wait(2)
end
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7

I use dictionaries because the owner wants me to name each line.

8

FINAL ANSWER:

local QuestList = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.QuestList)
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer

function table_length(t)--getting the length of the dictionary
	local z = 0
	for i,v in pairs(t) do z = z + 1 end
	return z
end

for i = 1, table_length(QuestList[plr.QuestFolder.QuestNumber.Value]["Lines"]), 1 do
	
	local line = QuestList[plr.QuestFolder.QuestNumber.Value]["Lines"]["Line"..tostring(i)]--the current line
	
	for i = 0, #line, 1 do--looping through the line
		script.Parent.QuestText.Text = string.sub(line, 0, i)
		wait(0.05)
	end
	
	wait(2)
end