Lua Tables & Descendants

[Jontizm (Jon)]

Simple question; is there a built-in functionality for checking tables nested within tables for a certain value, or should I create a looping function?

I know that when it comes to instances, you can do Sample:GetDescendants() to create a table with all the descendants in it, and just iterate through that once, I was wondering if there is a similar method available for doing that to existing tables.

[BenMactavsin]

No, there isn’t. You have to write it yourself.

[StrongBigeMan9]

To add onto Ben’s reply, here’s a topic that covers some steps that could be taken to achieve that:

Iterate through nested table

I don’t have a use case for this yet, but I want to know whether there’s a way to traverse all elements in a nested table, without using two functions in this way: local nested = {key = { "str"; value = { value2 = {"val"; value3 = {"value"} } } } } local function iter(tab) for k, v in pairs(tab) do …