1. Posted by i2ichardt on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:27:40

    I want to make a string taken from the target mobs name and convert it to be a table name instead of just a string.

     Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells = {}; --Defines Table
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[1] = "16827"; -- Claw
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[2] = "2649"; -- Growl
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[3] = "13443"; -- Rend
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[4] = "6268"; -- Rushing Charge

 local tar = UnitName("target");
 local TempFName, TempLName = strsplit(" ",tostring(tar));
 local TableName = (TempFName.."_"..TempLName.."Spells");

 print(#TableName); --Return the number of spells in the table

    Currently TableName in the last print line is a string, i want it to reference the table defined on the first line. I can't figure it out.

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:51:59

    I want to make a string taken from the target mobs name and convert it to be a table name instead of just a string.

     Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells = {}; --Defines Table
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[1] = "16827"; -- Claw
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[2] = "2649"; -- Growl
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[3] = "13443"; -- Rend
 Bloodtalon_ScythemawSpells[4] = "6268"; -- Rushing Charge
 
 local tar = UnitName("target");
 local TempFName, TempLName = strsplit(" ",tostring(tar));
 local TableName = (TempFName.."_"..TempLName.."Spells");
 
 print(#TableName); --Return the number of spells in the table

    Currently TableName in the last print line is a string, i want it to reference the table defined on the first line. I can't figure it out.

    This is because these lines:

     local TempFName, TempLName = strsplit(" ",tostring(tar));
 local TableName = (TempFName.."_"..TempLName.."Spells");

    Just creates a string. You can't just turn a string into a table, but you can use a lookup table to do this.

     local MobInfo = {}
 MobInfo["Bloodtalon Scythemaw"] = {}
 MobInfo["Bloodtalon Scythemaw"][1] = "16827"; -- Claw

    Then you can just do:

    MobInfo[tar] to get at that info table.

  3. Posted by i2ichardt on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:41:27

    Thank You.

    Had to change it a lil to get it to work though: print(#MobDatabase[tar]);