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(Self Solved) Trying to keep certain parts in a string that is inside a table? I accept answers.

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IckyTheSuperior 74
5 days ago
Edited 5 days ago

I've been coding a game for the past couple days and I ran into this problem that I have yet to figure out. So a table gets created that gets the children of the players Character. So now at this point we have our table created and we sort through it. Then the problem comes in when I make a string of Names that belong in the players Character that I do not want to delete but instead it deletes everything inside the players Character. I know what the problem is just I do not know how to go about fixing it since I'm just now getting started in Tables. I hope I worded this correctly but any help would greatly be appreciated! I think I need to run through the entire string before I run the :Destroy function but I don't know how I would do that.

local object = script.Parent
local partsToKeep = {"Head", "HumanoidRootPart"} ----Parts I want to keep 

local function infectPlayer(hit)
    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")then
        if hit.Parent.Infected.Value == false then
            hit.Parent.Infected.Value = true
            local playersTable = hit.Parent:GetChildren()
            for i, v in pairs(playersTable) do
                print(i .. " is = to " .. v.Name)
                for _, p in pairs(partsToKeep) do
                    if v.Name ~= p.Name then  ----Possible broken code 
                        v:Destroy()
                    end
                end
            end 
        end
    end
end
object.Touched:Connect(infectPlayer)

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Answered by
IckyTheSuperior 74
5 days ago

I've came up with some new code that correctly works. If you have a better way to script it let me know, I'm always willing to learn. Fixed Code is below

local object = script.Parent
local partsToKeep = {"Head", "HumanoidRootPart"}
local killPart = nil

local function infectPlayer(hit)
    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")then
        if hit.Parent.Infected.Value == false then
            hit.Parent.Infected.Value = true
            local playersTable = hit.Parent:GetChildren()
            for i, v in pairs(playersTable) do
                ---print(i .. " is = to " .. v.Name)
                for _, p in pairs(partsToKeep) do
                    if v.Name == p then
                        killPart = 1
                        print(p)
                    end
                end
                if killPart == 1 then
                    killPart = 0
                else
                    v:Destroy()
                end
            end 
        end
    end
end
object.Touched:Connect(infectPlayer)
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