How to find something from table

[tigerman]

Hello dear community members, i need some help here

i have table but i need to find from there single word, for example "car-infernus"

could someone tell me function for that ? like to find from string i need string.find but what about tables ?

-- Thanks

[Citizen]

Hi,

There are no function for that ( except the string.find like you said )

You have to create a loop in which the server get 1 by 1 a word from the table then make a string.find if in a loop it return true, you can break the loop and make your instructions.

Put here your table ( all we need for understand the table )

[tigerman]

function test (thePlayer,commandname,map1) 
local mapTable = {} 
for i, maps in ipairs(exports.mapmanager:getMapsCompatibleWithGamemode(getResourceFromName("race"))) do 
table.insert(mapTable, getResourceInfo(maps, "name")) 
end 
end 
addCommandHandler("test",test) 

and now it has to find map from mapTable with that name what was in command

[Callum]

You can set the item key as a string, and then call the string later on like 'tableName["item"]', instead of looping the whole table every time.

[Citizen]

You want to get the resource to start ? whith his name ?

[tigerman]

just name to outputChatBox would be nice.. then i can continue by myself

[Citizen]

ok try this but what do you want to do exactly ?

function foundMap( thePlayer, commandName, map ) 
    if map then 
        local mapName = tostring( map ) 
        for k,i in ipairs ( mapTable ) do 
            outputChatBox( "if "..i[1].." == "..mapName, thePlayer ) 
            if ( tostring(i[1]) == tostring(mapName) ) then 
                outputChatBox( "I found ! It's "..tostring(i[1]), thePlayer, 180, 0, 0 ) 
                break 
            end 
        end 
    else 
        outputChatBox("/test2 [mapName]" ) 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("test2",foundMap) 

[tigerman]

line 5 says error

"attempt to concatenate field '?' (a nil value)"

[Dre-+-]

function table.find(tabl,word) 
if type(tabl) ~= "table" or word == nil then 
return false 
else 
local ret = false 
for k,v in pairs(tabl) do 
    if v == word then 
    return k 
    end 
end 
end 
end 
  

Now you can use: table.find(yourtable,whatfind)

[tigerman]

Thanks Dre, works perfect

also thanks to Citizen for trying to help me

this forum would be useless without you 2

[Castillo]

"this forum would be useless without you 2"

I don't think that's correct, many others are helping in the forum, not just them.

[Citizen]

Haha Yeah tigerman forgot you SolidSnake

But he can't know every scripters who helping others

[Castillo]

I won't him to name every scripter here, just is unfair to say just two are helping