How do I remove parts from a dictionary?

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#1 

local ogpart = Instance.new("Part")

local part = ogpart:Clone()

local dict = {
    parts = {}
}

dict.parts[part] = {
     OGPart = ogpart
}

how would i remove this part from the dictionary? dict.parts = {} works but its not what im looking for as I would want to put multiple parts in this dictionary.

dict.parts[part] = nil and table.remove(dict.parts, table.find(dict.parts, part)) also doesnt work

#2

dict.parts[part] = nil is how you remove dict.parts[part].
dict.parts[part].OGPart = nil will remove OGPart.
If neither of those are what you want, you might need to provide more details. This structure is a little messy.

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#3

sorry for the messy structure yeah. I swear I tried that and when I loop through the table, the part still appears in it. I’ll try to redo this and see if I can get it to work

#4

Sounds good. Let me know if that doesn’t work. Also if ogpart is the only entry in that second dictionary, you should probably remove the second dictionary.
dict.parts[part] = ogpart

#5

This didn’t work to you because table.find works for arrays, not for dictionaries. For dictionaries you might need to do one of these:
1.dict[parts]
2.dict.parts

That simply worked but made your inner table nil, hence anything in that inner table, would be nil aswell.

The solution will be what @JarodOfOrbiter already wrote above:

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#6

I had to redo how my dictionary was set up, that method now works thank you