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Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:29 pm**

I'm trying to get my stinkin' list of afflictions to do anything, at all. I'm sure something is wrong with the basic way I set it up, and if I can figure it out I'll be good to go.

The following incredibly long spammage is my Affliction Handling script, or at least the very beginning of it. Right now I'm just making a table of afflictions with their respective on/off values. My problem is that I can't seem to do anything with them. If I do echo(v) it shows me a long string of zeros that seem to correspond with how many items are in the list, but I cannot for the life of me get it to do echo(k). All references to a specific affliction don't work. I even tried a simple test alias to do afflictionList.fear = 1 and then echo(afflictionList.fear), but nothing works at all. Any insight would be most appreciated.

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afflictionList = {
  ["addiction"] = 0,
  ["aeon"] = 0,
  ["agoraphobia"] = 0,
  ["anorexia"] = 0,
  ["asthma"] = 0,
  ["baldness"] = 0,
  ["berserking"] = 0,
  ["black_bile"] = 0,
  ["blood_curse"] = 0,
  ["blood_effusion"] = 0,
  ["blood_poisoning"] = 0,
  ["blurry_vision"] = 0,
  ["body_odor"] = 0,
  ["burning"] = 0,
  ["claustrophobia"] = 0,
  ["clumsiness"] = 0,
  ["confusion"] = 0,
  ["deadening"] = 0,
  ["dementia"] = 0,
  ["disfigurement"] = 0,
  ["disrupt"] = 0,
  ["dissonance"] = 0,
  ["dizziness"] = 0,
  ["earth_rot"] = 0,
  ["epilepsy"] = 0,
  ["fear_of_commitment"] = 0,
  ["frozen"] = 0,
  ["generosity"] = 0,
  ["haemophilia"] = 0,
  ["hallucinations"] = 0,
  ["hatred"] = 0,
  ["heartflutter"] = 0,
  ["hellsight"] = 0,
  ["hypersomnia"] = 0,
  ["hypochondria"] = 0,
  ["idiocy"] = 0,
  ["impatience"] = 0,
  ["indifference"] = 0,
  ["justice"] = 0,
  ["lethargy"] = 0,
  ["limp_veins"] = 0,
  ["loneliness"] = 0,
  ["lovers_effect"] = 0,
  ["masochism"] = 0,
  ["pride"] = 0,
  ["pacifism"] = 0,
  ["paralysis"] = 0,
  ["paranoia"] = 0,
  ["peace"] = 0,
  ["phlegm"] = 0,
  ["plodding"] = 0,
  ["recklessness"] = 0,
  ["sadness"] = 0,
  ["self_pity"] = 0,
  ["selarnia"] = 0,
  ["sensitivity"] = 0,
  ["shivering"] = 0,
  ["shyness"] = 0,
  ["slickness"] = 0,
  ["spinal_rip"] = 0,
  ["stupidity"] = 0,
  ["stuttering"] = 0,
  ["sunlight_allergy"] = 0,
  ["thin_blood"] = 0,
  ["throat_slash"] = 0,
  ["vertigo"] = 0,
  ["vomiting"] = 0,
  ["voyria"] = 0,
  ["weariness"] = 0,
  ["yellow_bile"] = 0,

  ["bound"] = 0,
  ["entanglement"] = 0,
  ["feed"] = 0,
  ["hanged_man"] = 0,
  ["hoist"] = 0,
  ["impaled"] = 0,
  ["lure"] = 0,
  ["quicksand"] = 0,
  ["transfix"] = 0,
  ["web"] = 0,

  ["broken_left_arm"] = 0,
  ["broken_right_arm"] = 0,
  ["broken_left_leg"] = 0,
  ["broken_right_leg"] = 0,
  ["broken_head"] = 0,
  ["broken_torso"] = 0,

  ["jawlock_armpit"] = 0,
  ["jawlock_neck"] = 0,
  ["jawlock_thigh"] = 0,

  ["mangled_left_arm"] = 0,
  ["mangled_right_arm"] = 0,
  ["mangled_left_leg"] = 0,
  ["mangled_right_leg"] = 0,
  ["mangled_head"] = 0,
  ["mangled_torso"] = 0,

  ["blind"] = 0,
  ["deaf"] = 0,
  ["insomnia"] = 0,
  ["prone"] = 0,

  ["fear"] = 0
}

-- Just trying to make the stupid thing recognize my afflictions, when
-- that works we can actually have it reset the values
function resetAfflictions()
  for k,v in pairs(afflictionList) do
    print(k,v)
  end
end

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:31 pm**

I -think- you just want:

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afflictionList = {
    "addiction" = 0,
    "..." = 0
}

You can make strings with double-square-brackets, but a single square bracket with a string inside, I have no idea what that would produce or if it produces anything at all.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:36 pm**

Oh, weird. I must've misunderstood the table tutorial. Lemme try that and I'll see if it works.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:39 pm**

I was getting an error when I removed the brackets. Just to make sure I didn't screw something up re-writing it, I even tried:

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plumberList = {
  "Mario" = 1
}

And that didn't work either.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:06 am**

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myEnnemies = {  "Peter", "Jim", "Carl", "John" };

e2 = { k1="Peter", k2="Jimmy", k3="Johnny"};

display( myEnnemies );
display( e2 );

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:28 am**

Oh, so the key has to be an un-quoted string, unless you do it as ["blah"] which is what you did originally. With this in mind, I went back to your original code-- and it all worked perfectly.

As long as one used "echo" and not "print"

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for k,v in pairs(afflictionList) do
    echo(k..v)
end

So you don't suck at tables after all.

Although personally, I find...

afflictionList = {
addiction = 0,
aeon = 0,
...
}

More readable then the ["stringified"] form, and since you're using all simple strings it shouldn't be problematic. Sorry for confusion in earlier reply. I'm not a lua expert

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:33 am**

Actually, that was the problem, right there. I'm just really dumb.

Nevermind the "print" up there, I actually changed it to "echo." The problem was that I was doing echo(k,v) like in the table tutorial, when I completely forgot about k .. v.

Lulz, it works fantastic now. Thanks!

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