Why is this nil?

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#1

Hey, I have this table:
local FunctionTable = {
SPermBanTable = {
[23199234060] = {“Bye Megami”},
[2319923406] = {“Bye Megami”}
}
}

And this is supposed to print 2, but it prints nil, any idea why? Player is the UserID btw.

function FunctionTable.SUnbanPlayer(Player)
	print(table.find(FunctionTable["SPermBanTable"], Player))
end
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#3

It’s the UserID. 30charlimitlolffff

#4

You’re giving it a player instance yet you only have integers as your table IDs…

#5

As others have suggested, replace “player” with “player.UserId” in the call to the “table.find” function.

#6

I just said, it’s not a player instance but the ID, I’m passing it as an argument from another script but it’s named player.

#7

Apologies, didn’t see the reply. Is the ID being provided correctly as a number? If not you could use tonumber() or tointeger() to convert it. You should also rename player to playerId or something similar to avoid confusion.

#8

This code should work.

local FunctionTable = {
	SPermBanTable = {
		[23199234060] = {"Bye Megami"},
		[2319923406] = {"Bye Megami"},
	}
}

FunctionTable.SUNbanPlayer = function(UserId)
	if FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId] then
		print(FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId])
	end
end

Incase it doesn’t that means that whatever data you are passing is wrong. Make sure the data you’re passing is actually valid (printing it and seeing what it is.)

#9

Hello, I am passing the correct data, I just verified so by printing it. Here is my full script:

--Tables
local FunctionTable = {
	SPermBanTable = {
		[23199234060] = {"Bye Megami"},
		[2319923406] = {"Bye Megami"}
	}
}


--Function
function FunctionTable.SPermBanOnlinePlayer(Player, Reason)
	table.insert(FunctionTable["SPermBanTable"], Player.UserId, {Reason})
	Player:Kick("You have received a permanent server ban from this server. The reason is: "..Reason)
end

function FunctionTable.SPermBanOfflinePlayer(Player, Reason)
	table.insert(FunctionTable["SPermBanTable"], Player, {Reason})
end

function FunctionTable.SUnbanPlayer(UserId)
	FunctionTable.SUNbanPlayer = function(UserId)
		if FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId] then
			print(FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId])
		end
	end
end

--Return the functions
return FunctionTable
#10

table.find searches for values (the ban reasons) within a table, not indexes (the userids). Change the code so that it’s indexing the table instead.

print(FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[Player]) -- Indexing with square brackets isn't really needed here

Above issue was fixed, but now you’re just declaring another function when you call FunctionTable.SUnbanPlayer() instead of actually executing the code to print.

Removing the declaration should finally have it working:

function FunctionTable.SUnbanPlayer(UserId)
	local bannedPlayer = FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId]

	if bannedPlayer  then
		print(bannedPlayer )
	end
end
#11

Are you printing it on the server? Printing it on the client is no good.

You seem to have a huge misconception about how the “table” function table works and are using it when it’s not needed.

--Tables
local FunctionTable = {
	SPermBanTable = {
		[23199234060] = {"Bye Megami"},
		[2319923406] = {"Bye Megami"}
	}
}


--Function
function FunctionTable.SPermBanOnlinePlayer(Player, Reason)
	FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[Player] = {Reason}
	Player:Kick("You have received a permanent server ban from this server. The reason is: "..Reason)
end

function FunctionTable.SPermBanOfflinePlayer(Player, Reason)
	FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[Player] = {Reason}
end

function FunctionTable.SUnbanPlayer(UserId)
	FunctionTable.SUNbanPlayer = function(UserId)
		if FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId] then
			print(FunctionTable.SPermBanTable[UserId])
		end
	end
end

--Return the functions
return FunctionTable

The code above should work, if there are still issues please post a photo of your output logs in order for me to properly identify what the issue in the code is.