Selecting random value from table issue

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1

This function currently selects any random amount of players from a table I made that gets all players in the game, the issue is that it removes the player from my table playersingame.
How can I modify this function so that it doesn’t remove anything from my table, and just returns the players randomly selected?
Any help is appreciated, thank you!

function ChooseRandomPlayers(count)
    local result = {}
    local players = playersingame
    if count > #players then
        return players
    end  

    local rand = Random.new()
    
    for i = 1, count do
        table.insert(result, table.remove(players, rand:NextInteger(1, #players)))
    end

    return result
end
2

Remember to clone the table using a function like below. Currently it’s the same table due to how tables are passed by reference.

3

Sorry, I’m not quite sure how I’m supposed to go about this.
When I print out the playersingame table, I only see 1 value in it since the other one got taken out from it, but I need both values to stay and just a random result returned. Am I supposed to clone the original table? Or…

4

I tried using the unpack method for cloning but resulted in this error:
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function ChooseRandomPlayers(count)
	local result = {}
	
	local clone = (unpack(playersingame))
	
	if count > #clone then
		return clone
	end  

	local rand = Random.new()

	for i = 1, count do
		table.insert(result, table.remove(clone, rand:NextInteger(1, #clone)))
	end

	return result

end
5

Okay I tried the shallowcopy function and it worked thank you so much for this, I never knew about cloning tables so it’s something new I learned :smiley: