Finding more than one entity class type

[MGCLegend]

Trying to have an entity find entity targets by class. The issue is that finding more than one class causes the ent to select some targets before others,
is there any way to make it so that it does not matter what class is first in the search?
Without this, the ent will always target "melon" first instead of randomly selecting its target ents.
Here is what I mean by this:

melontarget = nil

function findatarget()

	for k, v in pairs ( ents.FindByClass("melons") ) do --will always target melons first (WANT TO CHANGE)
			melontarget = v
			--code here
	end
	
	if melontarget == nil then
		for k, v in pairs ( ents.FindByClass("someothermelons") ) do --will always target second, should be random targeting
			melontarget = v
			--someothercode here
		end
	end
	
end

[Rubat]

local t = ents.FindByClass("melons")
t = table.Add( t, ents.FindByClass("someothermelons") )

if table.Count(t) > 0 then
//select a random thing from the "t" table
end

[Acecool]

It may be cheaper to use ents.GetAll( ) in a loop and then just have an if statement compare if it is your class. classes = { melons = true; someothermelons = true } then use if ( classes[ k ] ) then melontarget = v; end ...

ents.FindByClass just loops through all of them anyway, if I recall correctly. So instead of doing it twice, may as well just do it once.

[MGCLegend]

Thanks to both of you. :dance: