I’m currently working on a little chat tags script, and was sorting the chat tags in one large table similar to how the table below is set up:
When looping through the table, I’m able to access the values, like -1 and 2. However, I also want to be able to access the key, which would be, in this case, Bananas or Apples.
After a little bit of experimenting with the functions that table has, I was unable to figure anything out. This would be super useful in sorting through various Color3 values set up in the script for each chat tag color and honestly a lot of other applications.
You can use the pairs and ipairs loops to loop through tables to get access to both the index/key and value.
There are two types of tables:
Arrays store data with an index, which is a simple integer, and Dictonaries store data with any type of value.
array = {
hello,
goodbye,
hola
}
for i,v in ipairs(array) do
print(i,v) -- In this loop you access the index with variable i and the value with variable v.
end
dictionary = {
["Bananas"] = -1,
["Apples"] = 2
}
for k,v in pairs(dictionary) do
print(k,v) -- In this loop you access the key with variable k and the value with variable v.
end
