pass a variable to his value

function setVal(key, value)
data.key = value
end

this problem is fustrant i wnt to pass the variable to his value and pass that to the table but is not working HEEEELP

What's it doing?

try

function setVal(key, value)
   data[key] = value
end

thanks why i dont mid on that xDDD

As stated here under the heading "Tables as Dictionaries", you can access data using the shorthand ( syntactical sugar ) of a . but when assigning or updating a key it must be with [ ]

That's a little inaccurate. The exact problem is that data.key is precisely equivalent to data["key"], in which key is the literal string "key" and not whatever is contained in the variable with the identifier "key". Thus you need to use data[key], so that you index by the value contained in the variable with the identifier "key" rather than indexing by the literal string value "key".

You can assign new indexes using the format data.key, but the assignment will always be to the literal string value rather than to any variable associated with the identifier.