How would I print certain statements based on strings in a table

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#1

What I want to accomplish is basically running through a table in order, and running functions based on the string in the table. Here is an example.

local table = {"Word1", "Word2", "Word5", "Word8", "Word1"}
The script should go through and execute a function based on the strings in the table, and what order they are in.

I know there is probably a really simple solution I am not seeing, but it’s been a long day lol

#2

Do you mean the elements “Word1”, “Word2”, etc. are actually the function names? Or should be passed as arguments to a single function?

In the latter case, you can simply do this:

local func = function(word)
   print('Word: '..word)
end

for _,word in pairs(table) do
    func(word)
end
#3 
local function func1()
	print("Function 1")
end

local function func2()
	print("Function 2")
end

local function func3()
	print("Function 3")
end

local function_table = {func1, func2, func3}

-- Loop through the table and execute each function
for _, func in pairs(function_table) do
	func()
end
#4
Nevermind, I'm blind.

No they were just an example

Great, I think that will work. Is there any way I could put those functions (func1, etc.) inside a modulescript and have the function table be inputted through a different script?

Thank you that helped :slight_smile:

#5

Ok, one more question. How do I insert into the table?

#6

table.insert(t, value)

t is the table

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#7 
local function func1()
	print("Function 1")
end

local function func2()
	print("Function 2")
end

local function func3()
	print("Function 3")
end

local function_table = {func1, func2, func3}

table.insert(function_table,func1)

-- Loop through the table and execute each function
for _, func in pairs(function_table) do
	func()
end
#8

Ok, but what if the functions were in a modulescript and I had to add to the table in another script. How would I do that?

#10 
-- Load the module from other script
local MyModule = require(game.ServerScriptService.ModuleScript)

local function func1()
	print("Function 1")
end

local function func2()
	print("Function 2")
end

local function func3()
	print("Function 3")
end

-- You can add both local and module fucntions
local function_table = {func1, func2, func3,MyModule.func2}

table.insert(function_table,MyModule.func1)

-- Loop through the table and execute each function
for _, func in pairs(function_table) do
	func()
end
#11

Oh, yeah I forgot about that LOL, thank you for humoring me!
Nvm, you still gotta humor me…

#12

Ok, on further testing It seems it doesn’t work. For some reason table.insert doesn’t insert MyModule.func1. Any reason why?

Edit for clarification:

This is what is not working. Here is the code for the localscript:

local module = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Module)
local tayble = {} --table misspelled on purpose

table.insert(tayble, module.func1)

print(tayble)
module.parse(tayble)

And in the modulescript:

local module = {}


function module.parse(blocks)
print(blocks)
function module.func1()
	print("Function 1")
end

function module.func2()
	print("Function 2")
end

function module.func3()
	print("Function 3")
end

for _, func in pairs(blocks) do
	print("Parse")
	func()
end
end

return module

When I print “tayble”, it outputs {}, and nothing inside of it while it should output {module.func1}.

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#13

you will have to move the functions outside module.parse; the inside functions are only scoped in .parse which makes it inaccessible from other scopes

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