Table question [Solved]

[unknooooown]

Hi. Quick question. If I have a table called "table1" and something inside the table called "LoremIpsum" - Is there some way I can get that table, not by using "table1.LoremIpsum", but get the last word, in this case LoremIpsum, from another place? Like otherPlace = "LoremIpsum" and then use table1.otherPlace ?

Here is a small example:

Note, that this is how I am trying to do it now, and ofc, its not working as I want it to

Server Side:

  
table1 = { 
["LoremIpsum"] = 1 
} 
  
function getInfo(blah1) 
local item1 = blah1 
outputChatBox("Output: "..table1.item1) -- If it works like I want it to, this should output "1" 
end 
addEvent("whenTriggeredClientSide",true) 
addEventHandler("whenTriggeredClientSide",getRootElement(),getInfo) 
  

Client Side:

  
function setInfo() 
local client = getLocalPlayer() 
local blah1 = "LoremIpsum" 
triggerServerEvent(whenTriggeredClientSide,client,blah1) 
end 
  

Note, this is just a small example I made to show what I mean.

Dont care about "That wouldnt work!".. The script is just to explain myself better

Hope someone here can help me. Sorry if the question is a bit confusing

Edited August 10, 2011 by Guest

[Castillo]

table1 = { 
    ["LoremIpsum"] = 1 
} 
  
function getInfo(blah1) 
local item1 = blah1 
outputChatBox("Output: "..table1[item1]) -- If it works like I want it to, this should output "1" 
end 
addEvent("whenTriggeredClientSide",true) 
addEventHandler("whenTriggeredClientSide",getRootElement(),getInfo) 

That?

[unknooooown]

Thank you for the reply Snake.

I have also tried that, but it didnt work

My example was a bit stupid, because I am actually using it like this in my script:-

giveWeapon(source, table1[item1], 1) 
  

-But ofc still with the same basic build as my example.

Dont know if it makes a difference when I use it in the giveWeapon function?

[Castillo]

I actually didn't understood you so good.

You are asking if you can do something like this:

local myTable = {myValue1 = 1, myValue2 = 2} 
  
outputChatBox(tostring(myTable.myValue1)) 
outputChatBox(tostring(myTable.myValue2)) 

?

[unknooooown]

Rewrote my exapmle.

This is what I mean: -v-

Server Side

table1 = { 
["DesertEagle"] = 24 
} 
  
function getInfo(blah1) 
local item1 = blah1 
giveWeapon(source,table1[item1],1) 
end 
addEvent("whenTriggeredClientSide",true) 
addEventHandler("whenTriggeredClientSide",getRootElement(),getInfo) 

  
  
function setInfo() 
local client = getLocalPlayer() 
local blah1 = "DesertEagle" 
triggerServerEvent(whenTriggeredClientSide,client,blah1) 
end 
  
  

[unknooooown]

Lol.. Nvm.. I solved the problem

giveWeapon(source,tostring(table1[item1]),1) 

[Castillo]

Isn't that what I said in my first reply?

P.S: Use tonumber() not tostring()

[unknooooown]

Yeah, I did use tonumber()

tostring() was a mistype in here

Thank you for the help.

[Castillo]

You welcome .