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String values to locations?

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1N0body 206 Moderation Voter
8 years ago

So let's say I have string value named "val". And in this value it's stored a location given by another script with :GetFullName(). Now my question is, how could another script read this value and ACCESSthat location. Example: Script 1:

val = game.Workspace.StringValue
    val.Value = script.Parent:GetFullName() -- We got the location of the scripts parent

Script 2: 

-- this scripts job is to access that location.
    val = game.Workspace.StringValue
-- now what? We can read the value but how am I gonna tell the script that the value is the location?

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User#6546 35
8 years ago

Don't

There's even a note on the Wiki if I remember correctly, noting that if you find yourself parsing this value then you're doing something very wrong. What you want to do instead is use an ObjectValue, and just set the value to script.Parent, so that val.Value is exactly what you meant it to be.

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Thanks, I didn't even know about object values 1N0body 206 — 8y
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