Module and Nil Help

[ThinkingAIINight (oscy)]

How would I detect if the Titles and Descriptions has nil in them.
Both printed titles not nil and descriptions not nil. (I must have nil in the module.)

Module:

return {
    ActiveNews = false,
    Titles = {{
        nil
    }},
    Descriptions = {{
        nil
    }}
}

LocalScript:

if NewsModule.ActiveNews == false then
    NewsUI.Main.Container.NoNews.Visible = true
    if NewsModule.Titles == nil then
        print("titles nil")
    elseif NewsModule.Titles ~= nil then
        print("titles not nil")
    end
    if NewsModule.Descriptions == nil then
        print("descriptions nil")
    elseif NewsModule.Descriptions ~= nil then
        print("descriptions not nil")
    end
end

[ThinkingAIINight (oscy)]

does anyone know how i could do this?

[HugeCoolboy2007 (omega)]

The reason why Titles and Descriptions aren’t nil is because they aren’t.

@ThinkingAIINight

 Titles = {{
        nil
    }},
    Descriptions = {{
        nil
    }}

They’re both assigned a table value that holds another table without anything in it.

(You also don’t need to put nil in them, just making the table empty is the same thing):

return {
    ActiveNews = false,
    Titles = {{}},
    Descriptions = {{}}
}

---

You can check if the tables inside of them have nothing in it using the next function:

-- Example usage
local function isEmpty(t)
  return next(t) == nil
end
--...
if isEmpty(NewsModule.Titles[1]) then
   --...
end

---

Unrelated

@ThinkingAIINight

  elseif NewsModule.Titles ~= nil then
        print("titles not nil")

@ThinkingAIINight

 elseif NewsModule.Descriptions ~= nil then
        print("descriptions not nil")

This can just be simplified to an else statement, if first condition doesn’t pass, then it’s not nil.