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[SpamStringer]

I'm having trouble with the following:

Functions = {"one", "two", "test.three"}; -- a table with function names

function test.dosomething()
func = _G[Functions[somevalue]];
pcall(func, somevalue);
end

function one()
end

function two()
end

function test.three()
end

For functions "one" and "two", things are fine, but "test.three" assigns a nil value to func. What am I doing wrong?

[Slakah]

It's _G["test"].three not _G["test.three"].

if you replace function test.three() end with _G["test.three"] = function() end then it should work perfectly, although I don't think thats what you were looking for.

Here's a simple solution replace

 func = _G[Functions[somevalue]]

with

 func = loadstring("return "..Functions[somevalue])())

or you can use string.gmatch the advantage being theres no wrapper function created:

Functions = {[1] = "foo.bar"}
foo = {}
function foo.bar()
end
local tbl = _G
for var in string.gmatch(Functions[1], "([^%.%[%]\"\']+)") do
	tbl = tbl[var]
end

print(tbl == foo.bar)

Would output true

Hope this helps.