Find Value in Table/Array?

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#1

I’m wondering if there’s an easier way to see if a specific value exists within a table/array. Right now, I usually just write my own search function to see if a value exists or not, but I feel like there must be an easier way.

Python has this capability with:

l = ['example']
print('example' in l)

Which would output as True.
Is there something similar in Roblox Lua?

Thanks

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#2

Roblox has added table.find(t, v) which returns the index of v in t, otherwise nil if v is not in t. So you should get similar results by doing:

t = { "example" }
print(table.find(t, "example") ~= nil)

Will write true to the console.

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#3

Thank you, I must’ve missed that in the API reference. My bad