How to avoid repeating code using tables and dictionaries?

[Aced_Machine]

I want to figure out a way to avoid repeating code whilst using tables/dictionaries.
So basically, here is a code sample:

local Table={
["Type1"]={
   ["Health"]=100,
   ["Armor"]=100,
   ["Damage"]=5
 },
["Type2"]={
   ["Health"]=150,
   ["Armor"]=150,
   ["Damage"]=3
},
}

So if I would to have like 20 types, how would I avoid repeating the same indexes that I have and avoid the copy pasting left and right to have a more dry and neat code?

[ketrab2004 (ketrab)]

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@Aced_Machine

how would I avoid repeating the same indexes that I have

do you mean something like this?

Roblox already makes sure you don’t reuse the same index in the same table.

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Or do you mean not repeating the “Health”, “Armor” and “Damage” keys?
DRY is for code, this is data. I wouldn’t do anything extra here since that would make it harder to read and understand.

[Aced_Machine]

Yes I meant the latter one, copy pasting the same “Health” “Armor” “Damage” keys in this example… I understand what you mean in terms of readability, but this is for convenience in my case. I have way way more indexes and tables within tables. I am wondering if you could do thing in a different way like maybe have a “custom table type?”, if that was a thing that automatically have the first and second…indexes set…Or some other way.

[ketrab2004 (ketrab)]

If you really want to you could do something like this

function newWeapon(health, armor, damage)
    return {
        Health = health,
        Armor = armor,
        Damage = damage
    }
end

then do

local Table = {
    Type1 = newWeapon(100, 100, 5),
    Type2 = newWeapon(150, 150, 3)
}

(you don’t need the [""] in this situation btw)

[Aced_Machine]

Yea this can def. help my case, thanks!