How Can I print out a players Data Using Data Store?

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So currently I am playing with DataStores, but I have a difficult time trying to see the values through the console. The closest I got was a table, the furthest I got was a function past that table.

I am using a modulo script with a player on added event on another script. Anyways, the goal is to print all the data inside my modulo code on the console.

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Saving_Player_Data

this is the modulo script I am using

01-- Setup table that we will return to scripts that require the ModuleScript.
02local PlayerStatManager = {}
03 
04-- Create variable for the DataStore.
05local DataStoreService = game:GetService('DataStoreService')
06local playerData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerData')
07 
08-- Create variable to configure how often the game autosaves the player data.
09local AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL = 60
10 
11-- Number of times we can retry accessing a DataStore before we give up and create
12-- an error.
13local DATASTORE_RETRIES = 3
14 
15-- Table to hold all of the player information for the current session.
16local sessionData = {}
17 
18-- Function the other scripts in our game can call to change a player's stats. This
19-- function is stored in the returned table so external scripts can use it.
20function PlayerStatManager:ChangeStat(player, statName, changeValue)
21    sessionData[player][statName] = sessionData[player][statName] + changeValue
22end
23 
24-- Function to retry the passed in function several times. If the passed in function
25-- is unable to be run then this function returns false and creates an error.
26local function dataStoreRetry(dataStoreFunction)
27    local tries = 0
28    local success = true
29    local data = nil
30    repeat
31        tries = tries + 1
32        success = pcall(function() data = dataStoreFunction() end)
33        if not success then wait(1) end
34    until tries == DATASTORE_RETRIES or success
35    if not success then
36        error('Could not access DataStore! Warn players that their data might not get saved!')
37    end
38    return success, data
39end
40 
41-- Function to retrieve player's data from the DataStore.
42local function getPlayerData(player)
43    return dataStoreRetry(function()
44        return playerData:GetAsync(player.UserId)
45    end)
46end
47 
48-- Function to save player's data to the DataStore.
49local function savePlayerData(player)
50    if sessionData[player] then
51        return dataStoreRetry(function()
52            return playerData:SetAsync(player.UserId, sessionData[player])
53        end)
54    end
55end
56 
57-- Function to add player to the sessionData table. First check if the player has
58-- data in the DataStore. If so, we'll use that. If not, we'll add the player to
59-- the DataStore.
60local function setupPlayerData(player)
61    local success, data = getPlayerData(player)
62    if not success then
63        -- Could not access DataStore, set session data for player to false.
64        sessionData[player] = false
65    else
66        if not data then
67            -- DataStores are working, but no data for this player
68            sessionData[player] = {Money = 0, Experience = 0}
69            savePlayerData(player)
70        else
71            -- DataStores are working and we got data for this player
72            sessionData[player] = data
73        end
74    end
75end
76 
77-- Function to run in the background to periodically save player's data.
78local function autosave()
79    while wait(AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL) do
80        for player, data in pairs(sessionData) do
81            savePlayerData(player)
82        end
83    end
84end
85 
86-- Bind setupPlayerData to PlayerAdded to call it when player joins.
87game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(setupPlayerData)
88 
89-- Bind savePlayerData to PlayerRemoving to save player data when they leave.
90game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(savePlayerData)
91 
92-- Start running autosave function in the background.
93spawn(autosave)
94 
95-- Return the PlayerStatManager table to external scripts can access it.
96return PlayerStatManager
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I have tried using a function to print out the results, but I end up getting an empty array or nil. So what Can I do to see all the data within the DataStores. Anyways, the goal is to print out all the information within the datastore.

Ah another reason why I took a break off this site, nowadays no one wants to do anything time consuming, if you want someone to help you, try shortening the script to where you think the error is, either you do that, or "tl;dr" EzraNehemiah_TF2 3552 — 9y

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