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Why does it do ["This"] whenever I have a space in the name of a part in the workspace?

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Noobap0 2
4 years ago 

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(p)
    if p.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")then
        p.Parent.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0
    end
    workspace["Existing 1"]
end)

Whenever I name something in workspace that has a space in it it highlights it in a script with something like ["This"] and I cannot really continue coding after that because it wont connect.

Be aware I am new to Lua.

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It won't affect anything. 0Papa_Rat0 63 — 4y
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It does that because you can't put spaces like this: workspace.Existing 1 0Papa_Rat0 63 — 4y
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br0 Gey4Jesus69 2705 — 4y

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Gey4Jesus69 2705 Moderation Voter Community Moderator
4 years ago

This is simply how you approach the ObjectValue of an instance with whitespace in its name. For example, if I have a part in the workspace named Test Part, to get the ObjectValue of the instance, we write workspace["Test Part"]

Attempting to write it another way, such as workspace.Test Part will error.

Thus, in your case, let's say you wanted to change the Name of the Existing 1 instance in your game. We can write `workspace["Existing 1"].Name = "New Name"

Let me know if you have any further questions.

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