How to get the name of a table

[PosFind (lobotomy)]

I’m trying to get the name of a table. However, it isn’t working.
I’ve looked at several posts but they haven’t helped me.
(in the below post, I’m trying to set an instance’s name to the name of the table)

local metatable = {
	["Apple"] = {
		["Amount"] = true
	},
	["Orange"] = {
		["Amount"] = true
	},
}

for _, val in pairs(metatable) do
	local bool = Instance.new("BoolValue", script)
	bool.Name = tostring(val)
	bool.Value = val["Amount"]
end

It sets the name to table: 0x868756d68e4cafc5

This was a test script used to check if my issue persisted.

[LifeDigger (Life)]

I may be incorrect but is the value _ not the name of the name of the dictionary (for example apple would be _ = apple)

[bluebxrrybot (blueberry)]

There’s no name of a table. If you want the Apple and Orange, use the _ value of the for loop. You’d change that to i or fruit or something though.

[PosFind (lobotomy)]

Could you give a script example of so? I don’t understand fully.

[bluebxrrybot (blueberry)]

for fruit, val in pairs(metatable) do
	local bool = Instance.new("BoolValue", script)
	bool.Name = fruit
	bool.Value = val.Amount
end

[LifeDigger (Life)]

Well it would be the same then what you have set up currently but rather then having the boolen name being set as “val” you would just set it as “_” but like what @bluebxrrybot said I would recommend changing it to something such as fruit.

Example:

local metatable = {
	["Apple"] = {
		["Amount"] = true
	},
	["Orange"] = {
		["Amount"] = true
	},
}

for fruit, val in pairs(metatable) do
	local bool = Instance.new("BoolValue", script)
	bool.Name = fruit
	bool.Value = val["Amount"]
end

[PosFind (lobotomy)]

It worked. Just one more question: I thought the first argument returned the index number of the value…?

[LifeDigger (Life)]

It does with a normal table but it is due to you having a dictionary within the table that you get the key rather then a number (or at least I think that is why).

[bluebxrrybot (blueberry)]

The i in for i, v in pairs is the key of the table. If it’s a list, it is a number. If it’s a dictionary, it’s whatever the key is.

local list = {"a","b","c","d","e"}
local data = {
    Test = true,
}
for i, v in pairs(list) do
    print(i) --> 1, 2, 3, 4...
end
for i, v in pairs(data) do
    print(i) --> Test
end