How to get the name of a variable?

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#1

I’m making a settings module and I need to know how I could get the name of the setting, but not the value of it.

How would I get this from a script? image

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#2 
for name, value in pairs(Settings) do
    print(name, value)
    -- example: MusicSystem true
end
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#3

You can just do Settings[“Name”] to get the value! :slight_smile:

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#4

They just want to get the index I believe

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#5

He wants the name, not the value

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#6

Works when printing this, but in my script it seems to think the value is nil



function module:Boot(SettingsTable,GamepassTable,ProductsTable,CreditsTable)

	local SFolder = Instance.new("Folder",game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"))
	SFolder.Name = "workFrameSettings"
	for _, name, value in ipairs(SettingsTable) do
		if typeof(value) == "string" then
			AddValue(name,"string",value)
		elseif typeof(value) == "boolean" then
			AddValue(name,"bool",value)
		elseif typeof(value) == "number" then
			AddValue(name,"number",value)
		else
			print(typeof(value).. " Error, other unknown value")
		end
	end
end
#7

I want both, as I need the setting value. Would be a funny setting without a value lol

#8

It’s just

for name, value in ipairs(SettingsTable) do
#9

Worked thank you very much! :smile:

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#10

It might be an issue with your implementation of ipairs, try replacing it with this temporarily to see if it changes anything:

function module:Boot(SettingsTable,GamepassTable,ProductsTable,CreditsTable)
	local SFolder = Instance.new("Folder")
	SFolder.Name = "workFrameSettings"
	SFolder.Parent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
	for name, value in ipairs(SettingsTable) do
		if typeof(value) == "string" then
			AddValue(name,"string",value)
		elseif typeof(value) == "boolean" then
			AddValue(name,"bool",value)
		elseif typeof(value) == "number" then
			AddValue(name,"number",value)
		else
			print(typeof(value).. " Error, other unknown value")
		end
	end
end

Side note: Don’t use the second argument of Instance.new

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#11

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll keep that in mind and rewrite that part of my code.

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