Lua/LOVE indexing problems

Lua/LOVE indexing problems

I'm getting a very irritating error whenever I do anything like this with
arrays. I have code that sets up the array in the love.load() function:
function iceToolsInit()
objectArray = {} --for object handling
objectArrayLocation = 0
end
and then code that allows for the creation of an object. It basically
grabs all of the info about said object and plugs it into an array.
function createObject(x, y, renderimage) --used in the load function
--objectArray is set up in the init function
objectArrayLocation = objectArrayLocation + 1
objectArray[objectArrayLocation] = {}
objectArray[objectArrayLocation]["X"] = x
objectArray[objectArrayLocation]["Y"] = y
objectArray[objectArrayLocation]["renderimage"] =
love.graphics.newImage(renderimage)
end
After this, an update function reads through the objectArray and renders
the images accordingly:
function refreshObjects() --made for the update function
arrayLength = #objectArray
arraySearch = 0
while arraySearch <= arrayLength do
arraySearch = arraySearch + 1
renderX = objectArray[arraySearch]["X"]
renderY = objectArray[arraySearch]["Y"]
renderimage = objectArray[arraySearch]["renderimage"]
if movingLeft == true then --rotation for rightfacing images
renderRotation = 120
else
renderRotation = 0
end
love.graphics.draw(renderimage, renderX, renderY, renderRotation)
end
end
I of course clipped some unneeded code (just extra parameters in the array
such as width and height) but you get the gist. When I set up this code to
make one object and render it, I get this error:
attempt to index '?' (a nil value)
the line it points to is this line:
renderX = objectArray[arraySearch]["X"]
Does anyone know what's wrong here, and how I could prevent it in the
future? I really need help with this.