I have a script that tries to find certain values in the player, the problem is the way the values are named, and it's not something that I can change. I was going to do something like
local p = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetChildren()
if p.Name = "ClothingSlot"
But the problem is that each ClothingSlot variable has a number at the end of it, so how would I have it check if the name begins with ClothingSlot?
The first and simplest solution IMO is to use the string.sub method to get the first 12 characters of the name.
if string.sub(p.Name,1,12) == "ClothingSlot" then
Or the shorter use of the method:
if p.Name:sub(1,12) == "ClothingSlot" then
And to get the number:
if p.Name:sub(1,12) == "ClothingSlot" then
local slotNumber = tonumber(p.Name:sub(13)) -- leaving out the second argument will give you a string of the 13'th character to the last
The second solution is to use string.match and string patterns, which can be difficult to learn and understand.
if p.Name:match("^ClothingSlot") then -- returns "ClothingSlot" if the string starts with "ClothingSlot", otherwise returns nil
And using it to check the name and get the number simultaneously:
local slotNumber = p.Name:match("^ClothingSlot(%d+)") -- checks if the string starts with ClothingSlot and returns any digits found after it, otherwise returns nil
if slotNumber then
slotNumber = tonumber(slotNumber)
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