Looking through a list of strings

[GravityWolf]

I am currently working on a Unstuck Command for a Prop Hunt Server. As I was working on it I needed to use a list of Strings; these strings would be all the commands that a player could say to get unstuck.
hook.Add("PlayerSay", "playersaystuck", function(ply, text)
local Commands = {
"!unstuck",
"!stuck",
"/stuck",
"/unstuck"
}
if (list.Contains(Commands, text)) then
What are other ways for me to call for things in the list. I have tried the method above and below.
hook.Add("PlayerSay", "playersaystuck", function(ply, text)
local Commands = {
"!unstuck",
"!stuck",
"/stuck",
"/unstuck"
}
if (Commands[text]) then
I would personally like to stay away from...
hook.Add("PlayerSay", "playersaystuck", function(ply, text)
if (text == "!unstuck" || text == "!stuck" || text == "/stuck" || text == "/unstuck") then

[MPan1 banned]

This is probably the fastest method
local Commands = {
"!unstuck" = true,
"!stuck" = true,
"/stuck" = true,
"/unstuck" = true
}

if Commands[text] then

[ThatGamingWolf]

You could also do something like
--Please dont define tables inside hooks without good reason
local Commands = {
"!unstuck",
"!stuck",
"/stuck",
"/unstuck"
}

hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "PlayerSayStuck", function( ply, text )
--when taking user input its best to lower unless it should be case sensitive
local text = string.lower(text)
if table.HasValue(Commands, text) then
    -- Unstick them
end
end)

[MPan1 banned]

table.HasValue is very slow. It goes through the entire table every single time just checking for one value. I don't recommend this method.

[ThatGamingWolf]

Lets not be petty on such pathetic differences in speed. We all know the difference in speed is so small you cant even measure it

[c👌de_g🎷]

That's not the point (although it's actually very easily measurable); it's the promotion of bad habits which start to accumulate into inefficient code in performance-heavy situations.

[MPan1 banned]

Just because you can't measure the difference in this example doesn't mean someone using it for a huge chunk of code isn't going to copy paste your answer and cause their code to slow down immensely. If there's a way to avoid writing slow code, why not take it?