How to get an arrays name

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#1

Hello developers!
I’m trying to make a data store array and when I receive the data I need to know the array’s name. So I made a little sketch of how this would look.

--making array

local dataFromDataStore = {}

--getting name

local array = dataFromDataStore

--prints arrays name

print(array.Name)

So how would I go about doing that?
Just to make it clear I’m trying to get the arrays name not one of the values name
Thanks in advance!

#2

That is not something you can do. You should try to store data in another way that allows you to, such as dictionaries.

local dict = {
     a=1,
     b=5,
     c="lemon"
}

print(dict.a, dict.b, dict.c) --prints 1 5 lemon

You can then combine this with loops to get the keys and such.

for i,v in pairs(dict) do
     print(i,v) -- will print the key name and its value in each iteration
end

This will output the following:

a 1
b 5
c lemon

Hope this helped.

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