Weird Table Behavior

[MexicanR]

I'm trying to add multilingual support to my addon, but I've run into a problem with my language tables. Below is how I have the different phrases saved in the language file; if I set them equal to a string it works great but trying to set them equal to a table doesn't work. It complete ignores it and leaved it out.

config.Language = {}
config.Language["English"]["Close"] = "Close" -- Works fine
config.Language["English"]["Kinds"] = {'cat', 'dog'} -- Doesn't work

Upon printing the table in the server console, "Kinds" does not appear. However, typing the same thing into the server console using lua_run, it works perfectly and shows up. I can't seem to figure this one out.

[Spar]

How do you use this table in printing?

[MexicanR]

In the actual addon it is supposed to be used in a for loop to compare a user input to a list of possible strings, however it spits an error about it being nil. In my testing, I use
lua_run PrintTable(config.Language["English"])
and it doesn't show up.

[Zeh Matt]

Try this

config.Language = {
["English"] = {
["Close"] = "Close",
["Kinds"] = { "cat", "dog" },
}
}

[SneakySquid]

What's nil? Show us the code where you use config.Language.

[MexicanR]

Its still nil; Close shows up but Kinds is no where to be found.

[Spar]

You need first to create table config, then create table config.Language, then config.Language["English"] and only after that config.Language["English"]["Kinds"]

[MexicanR]

I've done this... But only strings appear while tables never appear, its like it is completely ignored.

[Spar]

Do you have same things as in the post above mine?

[MexicanR]

Yes, just for clarification, I'll list it again
config = {}
config.Language = {}
config.Language["English"] = {
["Close"] = "Close",
["Kinds"] = {"cat", "dog"}
}

[Spar]

Now show how are you trying to use it

[MexicanR]

function IsValidKind(kind)
local tbl = config.Language["English"]["Kinds"]
for k, v in pairs(tbl) do
if v == kind then
return true
elseif #tbl == k then
return false
end
end
end

function AnotherOne(ply, kind)
if !IsValidKind(kind) then return end
-- more logic here
end

[Spar]

Are they in the same realm?

[MexicanR]

Yes, the language config is shared while the functions are server-sided.

[Spar]

Make debug:

print near (you can do inside function too) your serverside function: print(config,config.Language,config.Language["English"])
Show your results here later

[MexicanR]

Thanks for all of your help, I've solved the problem. For some reason, giving the function a local variable set to he config works while writing out the config variable does not.

-- example
local config = config.Language
function IsValidKind(kind)
local tbl = config["English"]["Kinds"]
for k, v in pairs(tbl) do
if v == kind then
return true
elseif #tbl == k then
return false
end
end
end

[Gmod4phun]

Just in case you want to access the original 'config' table, you should rename your local variable to something else.