Issues with using data from table to put into textlabel

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local CelebrityHeightScanner = workspace:WaitForChild("CelebrityHeightScanner")

local Scanner = CelebrityHeightScanner:WaitForChild("Scanner")

local HeightDisplay = CelebrityHeightScanner:WaitForChild("Base"):WaitForChild("ScannerResults"):WaitForChild("Holder"):WaitForChild("HeightDisplay")

local ResultsDisplay = CelebrityHeightScanner:WaitForChild("Base"):WaitForChild("ScannerResults"):WaitForChild("Holder"):WaitForChild("ResultsDisplay")

local factor = 10^2

local function MetersToFTAndIn(Height)
	
	-- Define the conversion factor for meters to feet
	local metersToFeet = 3.28084

	-- Convert the length to feet
	local lengthInFeet = Height * metersToFeet

	-- Calculate the whole feet part
	local feetPart = math.floor(lengthInFeet)

	-- Calculate the remaining inches part
	local inchesPart = (lengthInFeet - feetPart) * 12

	if inchesPart % 1 ~= 0 then
		
		return feetPart .. "' " .. math.floor(inchesPart * factor + 0.5) / factor .. '"'

	end
	
end

local CelebrityHeightData = {
	[1.47] = { -- 4'10
		"Danny DeVito";
		"Edith Piaf";
		"Madeleine Albright";
	};
	[1.5] = { -- 4'11
		"Judy Garland";
		"Kristin Chenoweth";
		"Estelle Getty";
	};
	[1.52] = { -- 5'0
		"Dolly Parton";
		"Hayden Panettiere";
		"Sabrina Carpenter";
	};
};

local db = false

Scanner.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		
		if plr and db == false then
			
			db = true
			
			local PlrHeight = math.floor(plr:WaitForChild("Height (m)").Value * factor + 0.5) / factor
			
			local ScanTime = 3
			
			HeightDisplay.Text = MetersToFTAndIn(PlrHeight)
			
			Scanner.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 25, 17)
			
			ResultsDisplay.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(184, 184, 184)
			
			ResultsDisplay.Text = "Scanning..."
			
			task.wait(ScanTime)
			
			local SimilarCelebHeights = {}
			
			for Height,Data in pairs(CelebrityHeightData) do
				
				if Height == PlrHeight then
					
					for index = 1,3 do
						
						table.insert(SimilarCelebHeights,Data[index])
						
						task.wait()
						
					end
					
				end
				
			end
			
			table.concat(SimilarCelebHeights, ", ")
			
			ResultsDisplay.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(239, 184, 56)
			
			ResultsDisplay.Text = table.unpack(SimilarCelebHeights)
			
			Scanner.Color = Color3.fromRGB(71, 255, 92)
			
			db = false
			
		end
		
	end
	
end)

--[[

[1.55] = "Thinks They Are Cooler Than 5'0"; -- 5'1
[1.57] = "Kevin Hart"; -- 5'2
[1.60] = "The Height Complainer"; -- 5'3
[1.63] = "Average American Female"; -- 5'4
[1.65] = "1 Foot Shorter Than THE ROCK"; -- 5'5
[1.68] = "Unfortunate Height For Males To Stop Growing"; -- 5'6
[1.70] = "Average Worldwide Male & Netherlands Average Female"; -- 5'7
[1.73] = "Flexes on 5'7"; -- 5'8
[1.75] = "Average American Male & Above Average Female"; -- 5'9
[1.78] = "1 Inch Cooler Than 5'9"; -- 5'10
[1.80] = "Slightly Above Average Male & Not The 6'0 Family"; -- 5'11
[1.83] = "Above Average Male & Netherlands Average Male"; -- 6'0
[1.85] = "Borderline Tall"; -- 6'1
[1.88] = "Pretty Tall"; -- 6'2
[1.91] = "Tall"; -- 6'3
[1.93] = "Human Tower"; -- 6'4
[1.96] = "THE ROCK"; -- 6'5
[1.98] = "Average NBA Player"; -- 6'6
[2.01] = "1 Foot Taller Than An Average Male"; -- 6'7
[2.03] = "Height Of A Door"; -- 6'8
[2.06] = "Weird Height"; -- 6'9
[2.08] = "Makes Ceiling Fans Nervous"; -- 6'10
[2.11] = "1 Inch Less Cooler Than 7'0"; -- 6'11
[2.13] = "Rumeysa Gelgi (Tallest Living Female)"; -- 7'0
[2.16] = "Shaq (the former basketball guy)"; -- 7'1
[2.43] = "Human Monument"; -- 8'0
[2.51] = "Sultan Kösen (Tallest Living Person)"; -- 8'3
[2.71] = "Robert Wadlow (Tallest Person Who Lived)"; -- 8'11

--]]

The results display will only get one person’s name for some reason.

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try this

			ResultsDisplay.Text = table.concat(SimilarCelebHeights, ", ")
			
			ResultsDisplay.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(239, 184, 56)
			
			Scanner.Color = Color3.fromRGB(71, 255, 92)
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Worked! Can you just explain why my code is incorrect and why i couldnt have done this as well?

for Height,Data in pairs(CelebrityHeightData) do
				
				if Height == PlrHeight then
					
					table.insert(SimilarCelebHeights,Data)
					
				end
				
			end
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To display all the names in SimilarCelebHeights as a single string separated by commas, you should use table.concat instead. Replace the line that sets the ResultsDisplay.Text

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try with ResultsDisplay.Text = table.concat(SimilarCelebHeights, ", ")

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Can you please explain why my code was incorrect?

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it was from attempting to set the ResultsDisplay.Text property. Instead of concatenating all the celebrity names stored in the SimilarCelebHeights table, you wrong used table.unpack(SimilarCelebHeights) , which only displayed the first name and ignored the others. so to correctly display all the names separated by commas, the code should have table.concat(SimilarCelebHeights, ", ") , ensuring that all the celebrity names were properly combined into a single string, resolving the issue.

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but why wouldnt i need to use table.unpack?

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table.unpack is used to unpack the elements of a table into a list of values, so in your case, you wanted to display all the names of celebrities in the SimilarCelebHeights table as a single string separated by commas.

you should use table.concat to concatenate the names with (, ), as it’s the appropriate function for joining table elements into a string.

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so unpack puts the elements into a list such as 1,2,3

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