for a ben 10 game, this is the snippet of codes i think would be relevant to my issue. i'm just looking for a way to sort through the tables without having to manually if everything like yandere sim
#trying to make an efficient way to sort through table
graceful prairie
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for a ben 10 game, this is the snippet of codes i think would be relevant to my ...
am lost
sharp magnet
who are these players and why they got special alien
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graceful prairie
who are these players and why they got special alien
thats me and my friends cuz i want to have an exclusive alien for me and my friends
or for like moderators
but it'll prolly be changed to alienX instead of waybig
sharp magnet
thats me and my friends cuz i want to have an exclusive alien for me and my frie...
then use a datastore preferably or a table if it wont change very often
graceful prairie
this is in a serverside script
sharp magnet
and?
graceful prairie
well im just saying
im looking for a solution to this table problem
cuz
this is my first time attempting using tables
graceful prairie
yeah i know but how would i do the thing im trying to do
i want to be able to press E or Q to shift onto the next string in the table
sharp magnet
wait so what is the problem? selecting an alien or the friends check? or both..?
graceful prairie
the friends check is completely fine
im trying to make a way to shift through the table
rn the script moves the selected alien to the last alien in the table
sharp magnet
ok so basically you are going to be making a linked list type of structure
graceful prairie
yep and how would i do that
sharp magnet
have the aliens available on the client side. then have a starting index. whenever the player presses E or Q the index will increase or decrease by 1 and the selected alien will be the one that corresponds to the index. whenever the index moves to either the last or first index of the table, you will get a range error if you decrease/increase it again. thus you can choose whether the user is unable to select any more aliens to the left/right or you can make it so that if they go too far to the left, they will start selecting from the right and vice versa. then they can just use remote to fire to server which alien they want
search up linked list if my explanation bad
graceful prairie
i think i'd rather keep the table on the server side, idm if it lags i just dont want vulnerabilities with exploits
sharp magnet
it wont have exploits. the user will simply dial which alien they want on the client side, then fire the one they want to the server and the server does security checks
paper plinth
what table function would i use to find the alien with the index
table.find 
graceful prairie
thankyou pyro
sharp magnet
table.find will return bool value if found
no
obtuse topaz
just access it by index
sharp magnet
it returns index or nil
graceful prairie
just access it by index
how
paper plinth
table.find will return bool value if found
table.find returns the index, not a bool. https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/libraries/table#find
graceful prairie
what is the solution this is all so confusing
paper plinth
;compile lua lua local t={cat="c"} print(table.find(t,"c")) -- cat
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graceful prairie
;compile lua ```lua
local t={cat="c"}
print(table.find(t,"c")) -- cat```
what does this mean, can you explain it a bit
obtuse topaz
;compile lua ```lua
local t={cat="c"}
print(table.find(t,"c")) -- cat```
table.find searches for a key
In table
in list-like it's different
obtuse topaz
btw better to use mapping table
paper plinth
table.find searches for a key
no it searches for a value
paper plinth
;compile lua ```lua
local t={cat="c"}
print(table.find(t,"c")) -- cat```
only works in an array
sharp magnet
how
you can traverse the table with a function like this: (sorry for shit formatting im on mobile)
local START_INDEX = 1
local function Traverse(T, increment)
local Index = START_INDEX + increment
if t[Index] then return t[Index] end
if Index < 1 then
return table.maxn(t)
else
return t[1]
end
end
(idk if this works i cant test 🙏)
paper plinth
local t={"a","b","cat","e"}
print(table.find(t,"cat")) -- 3
https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/libraries/table#find
Within the given array-like table haystack
obtuse topaz
now it's right
paper plinth
i thought it also worked for dicts. good to know 
obtuse topaz
I think it would be confusing