Issue with getglobal / _G[] - Not working correctly

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Hi am I doing something wrong?

When I use:
print(MayronUI.db.global.modkey.expand_retract)
I get the correct result returned and printed.

However when I use:
print(_G["MayronUI.db.global.modkey.expand_retract"])
I get nil

I have tested it using the line above but I actually need it like this:

local global = _G["MayronUI.db.global.modkey." .. frame]

I have used _G[] before like this and has never failed. MayronUI.db.global is a global table. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for reading!

[funkydude]

It would be _G.MayronUI.db.global.modkey.expand_retract

If you really want to wrap it in quotes, it would be _G["MayronUI"]["db"]["global"]["modkey"]["expand_retract"] or you can also do _G["MayronUI"]["db"]["global"].modkey.expand_retract etc.

There's not much point in doing so unless you're wanting to e.g. use a local variable as the address to the table, like:

local location = "expand_retract"
Then you could access _G.MayronUI.db.global.modkey[location]

So assuming "frame" is actually a name, not the frame/table address location, you'd want:
local global = _G.MayronUI.db.global.modkey[frame]

[pnutbutter]

Yeah the issue is that the entire string is the key; you can't put in a string that's supposed to go 5 levels deep into the table and expect the Lua to pull out the key at each level.

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Thanks guys! Works perfectly
Just me being dumb then hehe
Appreciate the explanation as well!