Screwy Usage of External Functions

[BlueNova]

Hi all

I've got this weird problem and I thought that some extra opinions would help me with it, so I have an external function called getIndex that just simply returns the index of an item in a table. Weird part is is that it's called in another file of mine and works just fine but when I call it for this other purpose I get the following error

Code: [Select]

[ERROR] addons/hydra_ttt/lua/hydra_ttt/framework/sh_groups.lua:23: attempt to call global 'getIndex' (a nil value)
Here's the code of the function

Code: Lua

1. function getIndex(tbl, value)
2.     for k, v in pairs(tbl) do
3.         tbl[v] = k
4.     end
5.  
6.     return tbl[value]
7. end

Here's a working example of it's use in a file I call sh_playerstuff.lua

Code: Lua

1. table.insert(args, getIndex(args, v), funny_words[math.random(1, #funny_words)])

And then here's an example where I get the error above in a file called sh_groups.lua

Code: Lua

1. local group_name = string.Split(self:GetUserGroup(), "") --Just incase you're wondering what some of the variables below were for/from
2. table.insert(group_name, getIndex(group_name, "m"), string.upper(v))

I've tried using AddCSLuaFile but oddly enough in first file, where it works, doesn't require it.

Any help/input would be appreciated, thanks.
If you need anymore info just let me know

[BlueNova]

Update on this

So I managed to get everything working with just using AddCSLuaFile() on the top of the files where I needed the function specifically, but it still confuses me why sometimes I'll need AddCSLuaFile and sometimes I won't, just seems kind of odd to me

[JamminR]

3-second guess answer - "self" is a 100% local meta, and local to (client).
Perhaps any other time it's called ( and works ) is server side.

[BlueNova]

3-second guess answer - "self" is a 100% local meta, and local to (client).
Perhaps any other time it's called ( and works ) is server side.

You guessed correctly, didn't think of that