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How do I use Script.Source properly??

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I'm creating a Plugin for roblox studio that writes a simple script and puts it in ServerScriptStorage. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work the way I want it too. This is what I have so far...

Script.Source = [====[ local ["game.Workspce.Part.Name"] = game.Workspace.Part
	print("Done")
	]====]

and when I use the plugin the output in ServerScriptStorage is this...

local ["game.Workspace.Part.Name"] = game.Workspace.Part
print("Done")

but I want ["game.Workspace.Part.Name"] to be the acually name of the part like this...

local PartName = game.Workspace.Part
print("Done")

Is there a way I can make ["game.Workspace.Part.Name"] not be read as a string?

Anonymous

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I wouldn't recommend doing this, because dynamically naming variables like this can easily cause problems, however you could do this using getfenv() like so:

getfenv()[workspace.Part.Name] = workspace.Part
print(Part) --> Part

which would define a variable within the function environment that has the same name as the part (in this case, 'Part')

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Thanks a ton, very helpful!

Anonymous#
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Hmm, actually this doesn't do exactly what I want to do, but I still learned something :)

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