How do I create custom Index for my values inside any table?

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#1

My idea was to create tables including stats of any player that joins the game.

Plrs.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Plr)
	PlayerData[Plr.UserId] = {}
	for name, v in PlayerStats do
		table.insert(PlayerData[Plr.UserId], name)
	end
	print(PlayerData)
end)

Both PlayerData and PlayerStats are created manually

I managed to create a table with custom index set as UserID. As I said, those tables will hold information about player stats, however, I did not found any way to table.insert new values into it that ALSO have custom indexes.

Result of my code, first table is what I want to achive, another is added by my script.

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Any ideas what can I do?

#2

You can add to a table with a custom index by doing someTable["someIndex"] = someValue

#3

Without using table.insert? wouldn’t this just overwrite my values?

#4

Yes, it would overwrite the values. If you wanted to avoid overwriting them, you could try doing something like:

if someTable["someIndex"] then
    someTable["someOtherIndex"] = someValue
else
    someTable["someIndex"] = someValue
end
#5

Does that mean I gotta do IF statement for each “stat” value? What if I have like 10 of those?

#6

And then how am I suppose to reference to table created with

PlayerData[Plr.UserId] = {}
#7

I’m curious as to why you’d want to not overwrite existing indices and instead store the changes in a new index.

#8

?

Plrs.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Plr)
	PlayerData[Plr.UserId] = {}
	for name, v in PlayerStats do
		PlayerData[Plr.UserId][name] = v
	end
	print(PlayerData)
end)
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#9

It works, and its exactly what I needed. Thank you!

#10

Im looping through table I’ve declared. It looks like this:

local PlayerStats = {
	Strength = 0,
	Endurance = 0,
	Agility = 0,
	Intelligence = 0,
}

When Player joins the game, script will get his UserID and make new table named by his ID.
My goal was to insert those values to freshly created user table.

#11

That’s my bad for going off track, it wasn’t clear to me what you wanted, sorry for that

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#12

No worries about that! Thank you anyway!

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#13

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