I have a table in lua with some data.

```
sometable = { 
    {name = "bob", something = "foo"},
    {name = "greg", something = "bar"}
}

```

I then want to loop through the table and assign a number to each name as a variable. New to lua and tried it like this.

```
for i,t in ipairs(sometable) do
    t.name = i
end

```

I was then assuming print("name1", bob) would give me name1 = 1. Right now I'm getting nil. So I'm back to my ugly static list of variables till some kind soul tells me how I'm an idiot.