World = {
Room = { file = "thing.lua" },
}
dofile(World.Room.file)
Lua: Attempt to index a string value
July 25, 2004 10:51 AM
This is the most obscure error message I have ever had... Google turns up nothing on it.
Here's the deal:
So, a table World contains a table Room which contains a string 'file'. At some point, I want to do this:
But alas, no. I get the wondrous "Attempt to index a string value" message. The bizarre thing is that I can change the string's name to various other things, and then it -does- work. So with some names it works, with some names it doesn't. And these names aren't already defined, I used countless bizarre unique names to try it out. For instance, World.Room.scr, World.Room.BLARGH, World.Room.IWillNotBeDenied work, and the file gets loaded, while when I name it World.Room.DAMN, World.Room.test, World.Room.Scri or other various names, it doesn't work.
What in the name of Lua is going on here? And what the hell does "Attempt to index a string value" mean?
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July 25, 2004 12:18 PM
Not sure why you're getting that error...because it works fine for me:
Maybe if you gave us some more context we could help find what's going on.
C:\src\lua-5.0.2\bin>copy con thing.luaprint "thing.lua successfully ran!"^Z 1 file(s) copied.C:\src\lua-5.0.2\bin>luaLua 5.0.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2004 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio> World = {>> Room = { file = "thing.lua" },>> }> dofile(World.Room.file)thing.lua successfully ran!>Maybe if you gave us some more context we could help find what's going on.
July 25, 2004 07:58 PM
dofile(World.Room.file)
should probably be
dofile(World.Room["file"])
should probably be
dofile(World.Room["file"])
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