Tables not working as I'd like them to.

[Matt W]

I've been stuck on my latest project (A car racing gamemode) ..

I have a networked string with the players cars in that comes off the MySQL Database.
Each car is assigned an ID (A,B,C,D etc) and the players cars are stored like this. A,B,C,D,E.

I then explode the string using

local car_table = string.Explode(",", ply:GetNWString("cars"))

I also print the table for debugging reasons.

Problem:

I've created a script to check if a player owns a car:

function OwnCar(ply)
local cars = ply:GetNWString("cars")
if cars then

	car_table = string.Explode(",", cars)
		if car_table["A"] then 
		
			print("True") else
			
			print("False")
		end
end		
		
	
end

concommand.Add("checkcar", OwnCar)

But it always fucking returns false , no matter what I do. I know that "A" is in the table because I printed it earlier.

I'm stuck on this one, Any ideas?

[Nerdeboy]

Anything between [ and ] in a table is the key, not the value. You're checking the key "A" of table car_table, which doesn't exist. You want to check for the value, so you'd do:
[lua]if ( table.HasValue( car_table, "A" ) ) then
print( "True" )
else
print( "False" )
end[/lua]

[Matt W]

[QUOTE=Nerdeboy;35012062]Anything between [ and ] in a table is the key, not the value. You're checking the key "A" of table car_table, which doesn't exist. You want to check for the value, so you'd do:
[lua]if ( table.HasValue( car_table, "A" ) ) then
print( "True" )
else
print( "False" )
end[/lua][/QUOTE]

Oh my god, thank you so much. Also another question.. Would this table method be better than using string.find(cars,"A")?

[Nerdeboy]

I haven't worked much with string.find, but if that returns the same thing, it would be faster than creating a table and populating it with the string's contents. Unless you're using really, really big strings, it shouldn't make much of a difference though.