<name> expected near message

[Hiding]

Hello, I'm wondering why throw this error message? <name> expected near '" Some message"'

 

local messages = {

    message1: " Some message",

    message2: " Some message2",

}

 

outputChatBox(messages.message1, source, 255, 255, 255, true)

Edited October 24, 2022 by Hiding

[Addlibs]

It's a syntax issue -- you're not supposed to use a colon to separate the key from the value in a table. The correct character is an equals sign:

 local messages = {
    message1 = " Some message",
    message2 = " Some message2",
} 

I believe "<name> expected" is referencing OOP style calls like SomeObject:someMethod(), (the only use of the colon in Lua that I can recall of the top of my head), as if you wrote :someMethod() without any object name in front, but Lua expects a object name there.

Edited October 24, 2022 by Addlibs

[Hiding]

Thank you so much 

Edited October 25, 2022 by Hiding