Retrieving a table from a Datastore

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So i’ve been working on a pokemon like battle system for a bit and im stuck on the save system using a module script, spefically how the data is retrieved from the module.

–PlayerDataModule
local PlayerData = {} – Data indexed as Player.UserId

local function newPlayerData()
	return {
		["Mons"] = {
			["Party"] = {
				[1] = false,
				[2] = false,
				[3] = false,
				[4] = false,
				[5] = false,
				[6] = false
			},
			["Box"] = {	
			}
		},
	}
end

function Data.ReturnData(Player, Category, SubCategory) -- ie category = Mons, SubCategory = Party
	if Category ~= nil then
		if SubCategory ~= nil then
			return PlayerData[Player.UserId][Category][SubCategory]
		else
			return PlayerData[Player.UserId][Category]
		end
	else 
		return (PlayerData[Player.UserId])
	end 
end

so to get the players party i do PlayerDataModule.RetrunData(Player, “Mons”, “Party”).
local PlayerDataModule.RetrunData(Player, “Mons”, “Party”)

The data returns fine however i noticed that it points to the orignal section of data that it is retrieving instead of being a new table. this isnt good as when the script say modifys the health of a mon it points back to the table in the mdoule script and modifys it. So i guess what i want to know is how do i make the function return the table and not a pointer?

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https:encodejson
https:decodejson
you can encode a list into a string then decode into a list again

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