Table detection

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#1

Is there a way to make a script detect if a player is in a table?

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#2

What do you mean? Could you give us the table that you need to detect players in?

Also, table.find can be very useful:

if table.find(path to table) then
    print("something is in the table")
end
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#3

I dont know how to use it could i get a dev hub link?

#4

You can do it on multiple ways table.find is an easy way to do it but it’s slower than creating your own for loop and comparing each value.

table.find(TableNameHere, "IamLookingForThisString") -- returns true or false

or you can do it inside of a for loop:

for i,v in pairs(TableNameHere) do
    if v == "IamLookingForThisString" then
       --do your thing here
    end
end
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#5

what do i need to do to find a player inside a table not a string im kinda new to tables

#6

If you’re looking for objects you could always do a for loop check?

for _, plr in pairs (game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
    for i = 1, #tab do
        if tab[i] == plr then
           print 'found player!'
        end
    end
end
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#7

Instead of string in my example you put instance/object.

#8

if table.find(table, player) then --stuff end

#9 
local playersTable = {game.Players.Player1, game.Players.Player2} -- this is the players table
local player = game.Players.PlayerNameHere -- replace PlayerNameHere with the name of the player

for i,v in pairs(playersTable) do
  
end