String to table(value)

[dugasz1]

Hello!

I've got a problem. I've got a tables like:

tancok = { 
    ["Salsa"] = {"Salsa", "DAN_Down_A"}, 
    ["TNT"] = {"TNT", "DAN_Up_A"}, 
    ["Tango"] = {"Tango", "dnce_M_a"}, 
    ["Rap"] = {"Rap", "dnce_M_b"}, 
} ... etc. 

More tables and i wanna write it owre whit in pairs(), but i got the table's name in string for example:

local thetablename = "tancok" 

i use in pairs:

for i,v in pairs(thetablename) do 
    outputChatBox(v[1]) 
end 

And got error :

bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected got string)  

Some help pls

[CocaColaBear]

What prevents you from using this?

  
for i,v in pairs(tancok) do 
    outputChatBox(v[1]) 
end 
  

[Castillo]

myTable = 
    { 
        "HELLO" 
    } 
  
outputChatBox ( tostring ( _G [ "myTable" ] [ 1 ] ) ) 

[dugasz1]

Thank you !

myTable = 
    { 
        "HELLO" 
    } 
  
outputChatBox ( tostring ( _G [ "myTable" ] [ 1 ] ) ) 

It's work

[Castillo]

You're welcome.