Tables inside Tables issues

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1

Hello. I’ve been having a problem understanding how these work, and need some help with them. It might sound very obvious to some, but I’m struggling with tables inside tables. I’ve looked around on the DevForum and have been searching online for hours, but I can’t find out what my problem is.

Basically, everytime I try to put a table inside of another table, the script keeps getting the incorrect values, or just returning nil.

I made a basic test:

animationstable = {
	["test"] = "a"
}

This hasn’t worked. I’ve also tried removing and adding various brackets, such as:

animationstable = {

["test"] = {
["a"]}

}

And:

animationstable = {

["test"] = {
"a"}

}

Again, this may be very obvious to many, and you might be facepalming, but this is basically the first time I’ve started using tables. Any help would be appreciated, and if you find any posts that might answer my question, I’d like to have their links, please.

If this is relevant, this is the whole script (Local Script):

animationstable = {
	["test"] = "AnimationTest", "rbxassetid://6886877145", "rbxassetid://6886883188"
}


local debounce = false
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
script.Parent.Activated:connect(function()
	if debounce == false then
		debounce = true
	if script.Parent.Parent.AnimationMenu.Text ~= "No Current Animation" then
		if script.Parent.Parent.TargetAnimation.Text ~= "No target inputted" then
		for index, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
					if player.Name == script.Parent.Parent.TargetAnimation.Text then
						local target = player.Name
						for index2, child in pairs(animationstable) do
							if child[1] == script.Parent.Parent.AnimationMenu.Text then
								 animationid = child[2]
								animationidleid = child[3]
								print(animationid)
								print(animationidleid)
								break
							end
						end
						plr:WaitForChild("Backpack").AnimationScript.AnimateScript:FireServer(target, animationid, animationidleid)
					script.Parent.Text = "Inserting animation..."
					wait(1.5)
						script.Parent.Text = "Send animation to victim"
						debounce = false
			else
					script.Parent.Text = "This player doesn't exist ingame!"
					wait(1.5)
						script.Parent.Text = "Send animation to victim"
						debounce = false
				end
			end
		else
			script.Parent.Text = "You haven't inputted a player!"
			wait(1.5)
				script.Parent.Text = "Send animation to victim"
				debounce = false
		end
	else
		script.Parent.Text = "You haven't chosen an animation!"
		wait(1.5)
			script.Parent.Text = "Send animation to victim"
			debounce = false
		end
	end
end)

The script is toggled when the GUI button is activated, and an animation from a menu is chosen, along with a player’s name being typed into one of the boxes… It sends a remoteevent to the player’s backpack (where the server script is stored for now), which then loads the animations onto the selected player, server side. I don’t think the server script is important, as the problem is ONLY occuring in this script.

Thank you for any help!

2

Your table in your script is completely unrelated to what you posted above, in the future you should use exactly what you did in your code so that we won’t get confused.

From what I see, it looks like you’re confusing how tables work. Tables are not parsed line by line, they are parsed by keywords. Therefore, the parser probably thinks that your second and third strings are a new value in your table instead of being part of “test”.

You should wrap all your values in curly braces, so it’ll look like this:

animationstable = {
	["test"] = {"AnimationTest", "rbxassetid://6886877145", "rbxassetid://6886883188"}
}

Hope this helped!

3

Okay, thank you for the help and feedback!