I'm Back! Array Big Problem!

[Demone.Astaroth]

Hi, dear lua friends, I was unable to post since 1 year, because I closed my hub.. but I always loved scripting.
I used to post in the earlier forum! Someone will remember some of my scripts, like Lucifer 666 AntiAdv and Crazy Animals Bot! I hope so.
Well, I decided some day ago to come back with lua scripting, only to terminate a huge script I'm bringing from 3 years.
The reality is: I met a problem and after months it killed me and my will to carry on scripting. I take to you my drama: if you give me an hand, I'll reborn.
I isolated the problem compiling a new lua, here it is:

--I want to separate the values of two arrays.
--Simply type:
--	call arraya
--	look arraya
--	call arrayb
--	look arrayb
--
--and then look arraya
--
--When I call arraya and then arrayb, the value of the first one is overwrited by the second one.

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arraya={}
arrayb={}
value={}

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function DataArrival(user, phr)

if ( strsub(phr, 1, 1) == "<" ) then
_,_,com, other = strfind(phr, "%b<>%s+(%S+)%s*([^|]*)%|$");
local versus=GetItemByName(other);

	if com=="call" then
		if other=="arraya" then first(user, arraya, 10);
		elseif other=="arrayb" then first(user, arrayb, 5);
		end
	end

	if com=="look" then
		if other=="arraya" then tellme(user, arraya);
		elseif other=="arrayb" then tellme(user, arrayb);
		end
	end

	if com=="kill" then
		check(user);
		if target~=nil then
			boom(user, target);
		end
	end

end

end

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function first(user, generalarray, number)

	if generalarray[user.sName]==1 then
		SendToAll("	Don't try to recall the array!");
	else
		generalarray[user.sName]=1;
		value[generalarray[user.sName]]=number;
		SendToAll("	Array called");
	end

end

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function check(user)

	if other=="arraya" then Checkarr(user, arraya)
	elseif other=="arrayb" then Checkarr(user, arrayb)
	else target=nil;
	end

end

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function tellme(user, generalarray)

	if generalarray[user.sName]==1 then SendToAll("	Array exists; value: "..value[generalarray[user.sName]]);
	else SendToAll("	Array is null");
	end

end

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function Checkarr(user, garr)

				if garr[user.sName]==1 then
					target=garr;
				else
					target=nil;
				end

end

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function boom(user, hit)

	hit[user.sName]=nil;
	SendToAll("	Array killed");

end

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Hope 2 be explicit.

[bastya_elvtars]

Well, then as being your fan, i MUST help you. :P

local versus=GetItemByName(other);

if no such user logged in then it won't work.

I cannot understand your problem atm. MAby an example will help.

[Demone.Astaroth]

Originally posted by bastya_elvtars
Well, then as being your fan, i MUST help you. :P

Such a satisfaction  :)  Happy to be identified as not a newbie

I think local versus isn't the problem (it seems it's just a old piece of script, coz I don't recall var versus later in this script).
Anyway, I try to be more clear.

User 1 play a sphere on the table.
The sphere has 10 hit point.
User 2 can hit the sphere to lower the points.
But.
If User 2 has a sphere too, when he hit User 1's sphere he hit his too.
I can't control the arrays to get them separate.
Array[User1] seems not 2 control only User1's arrays.
E.G.
I've got the function LOWERPOINTS[target] that lower the target points, in this way:
POINTS[target]=POINTS[target]-5
target can be Sphere[User1] or Sphere[User2].

I don't think the problem is an array included in another, or something else. It's a theoretic problem.

[plop]

1st of all welcome back.
now the script.
why not a nested table??
would work a lot faster and should make it a lot easier.

plop

[Demone.Astaroth]

Originally posted by plop
1st of all welcome back.
now the script.
why not a nested table??
would work a lot faster and should make it a lot easier.

plop

Oh plop, I remember you and RabidWombat from the old forum ;) Have I lost something important?
1)Do u know why array method doesn't work? I wanna try this, if a solution is possible, or I must change a lot of code (script is quite long and complex).
2)Give me a nested table example applied to this event. Unfortunately I must to rehabilitate after months of laziness ;)
Thanks, bye

[bastya_elvtars]

there is something to do with target. hard to predict as i cannot test it as my net is limited atm.

-- // edit

I looked at your script again. What if you used a nested table (as plop said before) like this:

spheres=
{
["user1"]={1,2,3},["user2"]={6,3,8,},
}

Would kinda make sense.

[plop]

a normal table seems fine 2 if i get your idea correct.
execute the next example with the lua command line.

tPlayers = {
   ["player1"] = 1,
   ["player2"] = 1,
   ["player3"] = 1,
   ["player4"] = 1,
   ["player5"] = 1,
   ["player6"] = 1,
   ["player7"] = 1,
   ["player8"] = 1,
   ["player9"] = 1,
   ["player10"] = 1,
}
for i=1, 50 do
   local iPlayer1 = random(1,10)
   local iPlayer2 = random(1,10)
   tPlayers["player"..iPlayer1] = tPlayers["player"..iPlayer1] + 1
   tPlayers["player"..iPlayer2] = tPlayers["player"..iPlayer2] - 1
end
tTemp = {}
iLow = 0
iHigh = 0
for a,b in tPlayers do
   if tTemp[b] then
	tTemp[b] = tTemp[b].." / "..a
   else
	tTemp[b] = a
   end
   if b > iHigh then
	iHigh = b
   elseif b < iLow then
	iLow = b
   end
end
for i=iHigh, iLow, -1 do
   if tTemp[i] then
	print(i.." = "..tTemp[i])
   end
end

plop