How to find table in a table?

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#1

Hello, I am making a trivia game, and I want to know how to find a table in a table. I tried doing it but it gives me attempt to index nil with ‘answers’. Can someone help? Here is my current code:

--Module script
local data = {
	{
		question = "Name an item a multi-millionare would buy",
		answers = {"Yacht", "Superyacht", "Megayacht", "RealEstate", "Lamborghini", "Bugatti", "House", "Home", "Mansion", "PrivateJet", "Chef", "Maid"},
	},
	{
		question = "Name a country in Eastern Europe",
		answers = {"Russia", "Ukraine", "Belarus", "Romania", "Moldova", "Finland", "Estonia", "Latvia", "Lithuania"},
	}
}

return data


--server script inside another script inside server script service
local Status = game.ReplicatedStorage.Status
local data = require(script.Parent.Parent["Questions/Answers"])
local Question = Status.Value
local plrs = {}

game.ReplicatedStorage.SendAnswer.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,answer)
	local StepsFolder = workspace.StepsFolder
	local questionnum = Status.Value
	local answerz = table.find(data[answer])
	
	if table.find(data[questionnum].answers, answer) then --Keeps giving me error here: attempt to index nil with 'answers'
		print("Answer found!")
		local length = #answer
		string.lower(answer)
		for i = 1,length do
			local step = Instance.new("Part")
			step.Parent = StepsFolder
			step.Anchored = true
			step.Color = Color3.new(0.901961, 1, 0.576471)
			step.Name = "testingStep"
			step.Size = Vector3.new(5,1,5)
			step.Position = player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position - Vector3.new(0, 2, 0 )
			if i == length then
				game.ReplicatedStorage.TweenTransparency:FireClient(player,length)
			end
		end
	end
end)
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#2

make sure you label the Tables, You are pretty much trying to get a Table within an unnamed Table

Table = {
["Example"] = {["Stuff"] = {}}

}

table.find(Table["Example"]["Stuff"])
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#3

You can find it via an index. For example:

local table1 = {
	{"Example"};
	{"Example2"};
}

--Since there are 2 tables inside this table, we can refer to the table using an index.

print(table1[1][1]) -- This would print out "example"

print(table1[2][1]) -- This would print out "example2" since it is referring to the second index of table1
#4

This is confusing for me to understand with my situation. Can you explain it a bit more in my situation?

#5

Pretty much what im saying is do this

local data = {
	[1] = {
		question = "Name an item a multi-millionare would buy",
		answers = {"Yacht", "Superyacht", "Megayacht", "RealEstate", "Lamborghini", "Bugatti", "House", "Home", "Mansion", "PrivateJet", "Chef", "Maid"},
	},
	[2] = {
		question = "Name a country in Eastern Europe",
		answers = {"Russia", "Ukraine", "Belarus", "Romania", "Moldova", "Finland", "Estonia", "Latvia", "Lithuania"},
	}
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#6

Then how do I find it now in the server script?

#7

You don’t need to do that. You can just refer to the index. For example:

local data = {
	{
		question = "Name an item a multi-millionare would buy",
		answers = {"Yacht", "Superyacht", "Megayacht", "RealEstate", "Lamborghini", "Bugatti", "House", "Home", "Mansion", "PrivateJet", "Chef", "Maid"},
	},
	{
		question = "Name a country in Eastern Europe",
		answers = {"Russia", "Ukraine", "Belarus", "Romania", "Moldova", "Finland", "Estonia", "Latvia", "Lithuania"},
	}
}

print(data[1].question) -- The [1] refers to the index (First table)
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#8

But i am trying to get the answers, which is in a subtable, or a table in the data table.

#9

That’s exactly what it does, it gets the table. It get’s the dictionary inside the table with the index 1. (Try it by printing or smth)

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#10

if you want a random Question, You can do this:

local RandomNum = data[math.random(1, #data)]
print(RandomNum.question)
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#11

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#12

Thank you, but I already have a random question generator, what I am asking is how would I find if the answer matches up with the players answer. Like this picture above ^^

#13

Don’t use table.find, use data[questionnum].answers.

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#14

But then how would I check what the player answered and see if it matches up?
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#15

So what exactly are you using?

  • The Chat?

  • A TextBox?

  • A TextButton?

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#16

What do you mean?

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#17

What is the questionnum if you print it?

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#18

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What are you using to answer the questions?

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#19

Questionnum is a string. Its basically the question the player is guessing.

#20

You can use a for i, v in pairs() loop as an alternative way to do that.

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