help with tables...

[Cowberty]

I'm getting this error: "bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)"

I'm pretty new to working with tables, so maybe I'm just not getting somthing here...

Here's the code:

local afkPlayerName, afkPlayersList = {}

local function isStillAfk(afkPlayerName) --Just checking if you're still flagged AFK
	for k,v in pairs(afkPlayersList) do
		if k == afkPlayerName and v == "afk" then
		return true
		else
		return false
		end
	end
end

local function findAfkMessage(self, event, msg, player, ...) --Looks for the AFK spam in the chat frame
	if string.find(msg, "is Away From Keyboard:") then
		if not isStillAfk(player) then
		DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("|cFFFFC0CB"..player.." is AFK.")
		afkPlayersList[player] = "afk"
		--[[elseif isStillAfk(player) then
		afkPlayerName = player--]]
		end
		return true
	else
		if isStillAfk(player) then
		DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("|cFFFFC0CB"..player.." is no longer AFK.")
		end
		afkPlayersList[player] = "not afk"
		return false
	end
end

ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER", findAfkMessage)

Any insight you can give me would be great. Thanx

[wurmfood]

In your first line, you're declaring afkPlayerName as a table and afkPlayersList as nil. I think you mean to do the opposite.

[Vrul]

local afkPlayerName, afkPlayersList = {}

That code is making afkPlayerName into a table and not afkPlayerList. You want to do something more like:

local afkPlayersList = { }

local function findAfkMessage(_, event, msg, name, ...) --Looks for the AFK spam in the chat frame
	if msg:find("is Away From Keyboard:") then
		if not afkPlayersList[name] then
			afkPlayersList[name] = true
			DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("|cFFFFC0CB" .. name .. " is AFK.")
		end
		return true
	else
		if afkPlayersList[name] then
			afkPlayersList[name] = nil
			DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("|cFFFFC0CB".. name .. " is no longer AFK.")
		end
		return false
	end
end

ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER", findAfkMessage)

[Cowberty]

Thanks! helped a lot!