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How do I interpret turtle.inspect()?

Started by Neander_King, 25 January 2015 - 08:29 PM

Neander_King #1

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Location Pryp'yat' Kyivs'ka oblast Ukraine

Posted 25 January 2015 - 09:29 PM

So, I am trying to have a turtle check if a wood block is in front of it, and I know that turtle.inspect() returns a table with two items, one of which is the name, and another which is the ID. How would I get the value from turtle.inspect into a single variable?


local block = turtle.inspect()
print(block[1])

However, when I run that code, it returns the attempt to index ? error.

Quintuple Agent #2

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Posted 25 January 2015 - 09:45 PM

turtle.inspect() returns a failed/success boolean then a table.


local didit,block = turtle.inspect()
if didit then print(block.name) else print("no block") end

This would return the name of the block infront of it

Neander_King #3

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Location Pryp'yat' Kyivs'ka oblast Ukraine

Posted 25 January 2015 - 09:47 PM

Thank you!