Thread by @notactulurus

📌 Daily #Roblox scripting thread 4!

#️⃣ TABLE INDEXING AND MORE 🔢

👇 A #RobloxDev thread!

We've already talked about the difference between arrays and dictionaries and about what an index and value is. 🤔

Today, I'll be covering the more advanced stuff like inserting new values into a table and more! 👇

How do I GET a value from a table? 🤔

This is what INDEXING means. You use the "key" that you put into the table to get its value. 🔑

Here's how it works for arrays 👇

It is the same for dictionaries, just a string or boolean instead of the number (and other types) ✅

Like this 👇

SETTING a value in a table is the same as with variables 👍

A little bit difficult to explain with words, but here it is in code 👇

But how do we completely remove something from a table? ❌

Well, we can just SET it to NIL ⚪

So now that you know the basic things, let's get onto our next topic - the Table library 📚

I am going to explain everything in simple terms for now and we'll revisit it in a future thread 👍

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In case you don't know what a library is, it's basically a LIST or a TABLE of a bunch of functions that have something in common - for example a Math library would be used for numbers 🔢

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Well this "table" library is used for - you guessed it! - tables! 👏

And here are the most common and useful functions 👇

✅ table.insert - This function is used to INSERT a new value to a position in an ARRAY. It would be hard to rearrange the indexes manually, so this function does it for you.

❌ table.remove - Removes an index from the table.

🔎 table.find - Finds a value in the table and returns its position

Some of these functions only work for arrays 🤔

That's it for tables today 🎉

Tomorrow's thread is going to be about WHILE LOOPS, so if you want to learn that, follow @notactulurus ✨

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