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How to Make A Variable For Something With a Space?

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Hello, I am trying to make a variable for the players Left Arm, found under character. I tried using FindFirstChild and WaitForChild and still got nothing when I tried to print the Parent. Here are the scripts:

Players = game:GetService("Players")
player = Players.LocalPlayer
char = player.Character
larm = char:FindFirstChild("Left Arm")
print(larm.Parent)

The other script is the same expect for WaitForChild being there instead of FindFirstChild. Thanks for reading!

Anonymous

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Try "larm = char["Left Arm"]".

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It worked! Thanks!

Anonymous#
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Np.

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When you see something like obj.property, that is sugar for using table-indexing with []:

obj.property is exactly the same thing as obj["property"].

Thus, you could use either char.Head or char["Head"].

While you can't use char.Left Arm, since a string literal can have spaces in it, you can use char["Left Arm"].

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Thank you for the explanation!

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