I’m currently learning tables on roblox, this seems very messy and I’d like to know if there’s a better way to write these before I dig myself into bad coding habbits? Formatting, ordering, whatever makes it look nicer and easier to read.
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try using a for loop, that’ll be easier
I’m not trying to use anything,
I said I’m trying to learn how to use tables.
I’m asking if there’s better ways to format…
I don’t think so, the best way to organize things as far as I know is dictionaries, basically tables but you put a key (like a name of some sort)
local dict = {
hello = 5
world = 1
}
print(dict[hello]) --prints 5
I mean, that right there is a good way to write it, but you could also try to add some space to in a way show that the values are inside of the table
local Table3 = {
Value,
Value,
Value
}
It all depends on the usecase if you wanna use dictionaries or arrays/tables
Yeah it’s just formatting you can follow robloxs style guide, don’t forget to indent, use that auto formatter.
Add trailing commas in multi-line tables.
This lets us re-sort lines with a single keypress and makes diffs cleaner when adding new items.
local frobs = {
andrew = true,
billy = true,
caroline = true,
}
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Perhaps you can try out metatables, it’s almost the exact same as tables!
make sure to tab each element, so instead of
local Table3 = {
"ONE",
"TWO",
"THREE",
"FOUR",
}
write
local Table3 = {
"ONE",
"TWO",
"THREE",
"FOUR",
}
it’s also a good practice to put a comma after each element in the table (even the last one), this is mentioned in the Lua style guide as well. I recommend you take a look at the table section of it to see more
Edit: mb I didn’t see dthecoolest’s reply, he pretty much wrote what I did
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