Functions inside a lua table

Posted by Ksajal on Thu 01 Apr 2010 11:33 PM — 5 posts, 23,070 views.

Ksajal Thu 01 Apr 2010 11:33 PM #0

It's been driving me insane, I'm using the same way of declaring tables in other modules, but I've never got such an error.

Here it is:


if
	not scan
		then
	scan = {}
end --if


function scan.salve ()
if 
	GetVariable ("salve") == "1" and
	able.to ("apply") and 
	not flags.get ("applying_salve")
		then
--stuff, I don't think it's really relevant
end --if
	
end --function


return scan

Here is where I get the error, at my prompt script (it's executed at the prompt):


package.loaded.scan = nil
require "scan"

function prompt (sName, sLine, wildcards)

--other stuff

scan.salve ()

end --function

The error I get is:


Function/Sub: prompt called by trigger
Reason: processing trigger "Prompt"
[string "Script file"]:5618: attempt to call field 'salve' (a nil value)

I think that somehow the function scan.salve () is not created, next (scan) returns nil

What am I doing wrong?

David Haley USA Thu 01 Apr 2010 11:36 PM #1

Well... where/how is your code calling 'elixir'? The word 'elixir' doesn't appear in any of the code you showed, just the error message.

Ksajal Thu 01 Apr 2010 11:38 PM #2

David Haley said:

Well... where/how is your code calling 'elixir'? The word 'elixir' doesn't appear in any of the code you showed, just the error message.

Darn, it's the same thing, I have two functions inside scan, one is elixir, the other is scan, they both return the same error message.
I'll edit my previous post

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 02 Apr 2010 12:11 AM #3

It worked for me when I tried it so you must be doing something else, such as assigning something to scan, forgetting that it is a module.

Ksajal Fri 02 Apr 2010 08:22 AM #4

Nick Gammon said:

It worked for me when I tried it so you must be doing something else, such as assigning something to scan, forgetting that it is a module.

You were right, I was resetting the scan table later in my script, and it didn't cross my mind to check.

Thank you!