Problems with localising variables

[bobbymcbobface]

hay all,

i need some help with a variable I'm trying to use from one file to another

i don't know exactly what I've done but i know my variable can't be called from the second file even know I'm using the return function
can someone please have look at my code and see what I've done wrong because I'm stumped on this one

~Thank you!

Snake.love

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[MrFariator]

As far as I can tell, you are doing something along the lines of...

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-- bottom of Game.lua
return Game, Menu.Snake

-- in main.lua
local Game = require("Game") -- 'Menu.Snake' from Game.lua is not assigned to anything

And this is repeated across most of the files. If you have multiple return values, you need to assign each of those separately. Otherwise it will pick the first value returned, and ignore the rest.

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-- example
function sample()
  return 0, 1, 2, 3
end

local a,b,c,d,e = sample()
print(a) -- 0
print(b) -- 1
print(e) -- nil, because only a,b,c,d received values

Reading your code, I don't know which variable you are having trouble with specifically, or where for that matter (I couldn't get the .love to crash when I ran it), so you'll have to elaborate if you need further help.

[zorg]

One more complication, require can only return 1 result.

[KayleMaster]

One more complication, require can only return 1 result.

That's why you return a table with your results:

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-- bottom of Game.lua
return {Game, Menu.Snake}

-- in main.lua
local Game = require("Game")[1]
local Menu.Snake= require("Game")[2]

Don't worry about require being called twice - its result is 'cached' after the first call.
EDIT: I guess you could also use unpack()

[raidho36]

If your module needs to return multiple values, consider that it might actually be two modules crammed into one, and you just need to split them.

[bobbymcbobface]

tnx guys! i'll get back to you if any have any problems if not, again, thanks