My module isn't working

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  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I want to achieve a system that encrypts data. What it does is it will keep scanning until it finds a match.

  2. What is the issue?
    It isn’t returning a value somehow.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    Nothing helped.

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	local function decode()
		for i, char in pairs(newString) do
			newKey = string.gsub(key, char, alphabet[i])
		end
	end

	local function Choose()
		while wait(.001) do

			if table.find(newTable, key, 1) then

				return key
			elseif not table.find(newTable, key, 1) then
				decode()
			end
		end
	end

I don’t know why it doesn’t work

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Is that your full module? You have to return a single value which is most commonly a table with your functions inside.

local module = {}
function module.decode()
    for i, char in pairs(newString) do
		newKey = string.gsub(key, char, alphabet[i])
	end
end
function module.Choose()
    while true do
        if table.find(newTable, key, 1) then
		    return key
		elseif not table.find(newTable, key, 1) then
			decode()
		end
        wait()
    end
end
return module
3

No, I just didn’t include the name or real table names. The code I showed is just the one module function that isn’t working.

4

Are you sure the function is even being called?
Using “local function” in a module script will allow it to be called only from the module script and not externally.
Hopefully this helps.

5

I have found the error. I messed up with the randomization.

EDIT: there was no error, but it wasn’t finding it because of how the randomization worked at the time.

6

Glad you found the fix, good luck!

7

Actually, somehow it isn’t returning the value i need