Wow addon failing to work with array - arrays

Question

I'm trying to create a simple addon for world of warcraft which records my kills.
I've already got'n quite far except there is a problem with the writing of a lua array.
The code I have so far
local CharacterDefaults = {
kills = {},
totalkills = 0
}
local killDefaults = {
DBtimeofday = 0,
DBplayer = 0,
DBenemyname = 0,
DBenemyid = 0,
DBzone = 0,
DBkilltype = 0
}
The next piece is inside a event which checks for overkill
if not KillCount then
KillCount = CharacterDefaults
end
if not KillCount.totalkills then
KillCount.totalkills = 0
end
KillCount.enemy[KillCount.totalkills] = destName
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills] = killDefaults
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills].DBtimeofday = stamp
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills].DBzone = zone
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills].DBkilltype = killtype
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills].DBenemyid = unitId
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills].DBenemyname = destName
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills].DBplayer = playerName
KillCount.totalkills = KillCount.totalkills + 1
Ofcourse there's more code but this is the only important code (as far as I know).
If I look at this I would expect that for every new kill a new array part is made and the values are entered. However, for each kill I make in world of warcraft, every single item already in it will get the results of the last kill.
The lua variables saved file:
KillCount = {
["kills"] = {
{
["DBplayer"] = "MyName",
["DBzone"] = "Blackrock Depths",
["DBkilltype"] = 0,
["DBenemyname"] = "Grim Patron",
["DBenemyid"] = 9545,
["DBtimeofday"] = "11-09-22 10:45:23",
}, -- [1]
{
["DBplayer"] = "MyName",
["DBzone"] = "Blackrock Depths",
["DBkilltype"] = 0,
["DBenemyname"] = "Grim Patron",
["DBenemyid"] = 9545,
["DBtimeofday"] = "11-09-22 10:45:23",
}, -- [2]
[0] = {
["DBplayer"] = "MyName",
["DBzone"] = "Blackrock Depths",
["DBkilltype"] = 0,
["DBenemyname"] = "Grim Patron",
["DBenemyid"] = 9545,
["DBtimeofday"] = "11-09-22 10:45:23",
},
},
["totalkills"] = 3,
}
as you can see the [0] is the only one to be properly writen. Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

The problem is here:
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills] = killDefaults
Everytime you kill, you're pointing KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills] to killDefaults then modifying killDefaults. The problem is, you are using the same killDefaults every time. So when you udpate the values of killDefaults later, it affects every reference to killDefaults that you have already created.
Try something like:
function GetDefaultKills()
return {
DBtimeofday = 0,
DBplayer = 0,
DBenemyname = 0,
DBenemyid = 0,
DBzone = 0,
DBkilltype = 0
};
end
KillCount.kills[KillCount.totalkills] = GetDefaultKills()