Can anyone help with #game child search?

I want to search for the children of all game files. Its something I did a year ago and cant remember the exact code. Im still very new to .lua. So far I have this which I knew was wrong and wont work but it should be close...

for i,v in pairs, #game.Lighting.GetChildren() do tostring(v) print(v) end;

Any help in cleaning that up into real code?

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It looks like you're trying to make a generic for loop using a numeric for style. This simply doesn't work.

First, pairs is a function, and it takes a Table as an argument. GetChildren returns a Table, but you have to call it as a method, using the : operator.

tostring(v) is unnecessary. print(v) will automatically call tostring() on v, since v is not a string.

Finally, and this is just a stylistic thing, unused return values (i in your code) are typically given an underscore (_) instead of a name, to indicate that they are not used.

for _, v in pairs(game.Lighting:GetChildren()) do 
	print(v)
end --Semicolons are not necessary in Lua 99% of the time.

Pairs takes a table as an arguement, such as the table of contents of Lighting. I think tostring is just for numbers or something. Use v.Name.

for _, v in pairs(game.Lighting:GetChildren()) do
print(v.Name)
end

take away the comma after in pairs and it is :GetChildren() i think you have to add parentheses around #game.Lighting:GetChildren()