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Player:UniqueIDTable

  table Player:UniqueIDTable( any key )

Description

We advise against using this. It may be changed or removed in a future update. This is based on Player:UniqueID which is deprecated and vulnerable to collisions.

Returns a table that will stay allocated for the specific player serveside between connects until the server shuts down. On client it has no such special behavior.

This table is not synchronized (networked) between client and server.

Arguments

1 any key
Unique table key.

Returns

1 table
The table that contains any info you have put in it.

Example

Example usage

local table = Entity( 1 ):UniqueIDTable( "mytable" ) table.MyValue = "test" // Somewhere else local table = Entity( 1 ):UniqueIDTable( "mytable" ) print( table.MyValue ) local table = Entity( 1 ):UniqueIDTable( "mytable_other" ) print( table.MyValue )
Output:
"test" nil