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How can I prevent this from happening?

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I have a script that needs to get data from a model in ServerStorage but it keeps giving me this error: attempt to index a nil value

The script line is this:

for i,v in pairs(game:GetService("ServerStorage"):FindFirstChild("Data"):GetChildren) do

Then it gets the data from it but sometimes it has nothing in it and it checks it any way returning a nil value and therefore returns an error. Do YOU know how to fix this?

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You forgot the '()''s for the 'GetChildren' method.

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"GetChildren" is a method, and thereby needs parenthesis at the end of it. The correct line is as followed.

for i,v in pairs(game:GetService("ServerStorage"):FindFirstChild("Data"):GetChildren()) do

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