So I have a leaderstats put in called CC (Cactus Coins, don't judge it.) and I want to make it so that if it's 1,000,000 it'll change to 1M instead of 1,000,000. And if it's a billion, make it 1B, and if it's 140 million, make it 140M rather than all the digits. How would I do that without calling hundreds of lines of code?
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How to make a money leaderboard change?
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local letters = {
"K",
"M",
"B",
"T",
"QD",
"QN",
"SX",
"SP",
"O",
"NO",
"DEC",
"UND",
"DUOD",
"TRED",
"QUATD",
"QND",
"SXD",
"SPD",
"OD",
"NOVD", -- I really doubt somebody will get more than a novemdecillion
--put more here
}
local nums = {}
for q=1,#letters do
local dig = (q*3)+1 --digits
local letter = 1*(10^(dig-1)) --for dividing purposes
table.insert(nums,#nums+1,letter) --insert
end
function shorten(num)
local len = math.ceil(math.log10(num + .5)) --get the digits
if len>=4 then --check if it's ok to shorten
for q=1,#letters do
local dig = (q*3)+1 --smallest number of digits the letter is
if len <= dig+2 then --check if this digit works
local toDo = math.floor(num/nums[q]) --the dividing number
local newNum = toDo..letters[q] --the new num
return newNum --return it
end
end
end
end
print(shorten(1789000000000000000))--it returns the shortened num
Then do what firedDusk said, use a StringValue when displaying the numbers
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But afterwards it errored saying it was trying to perform arithmetic on a StringValue and stopped working...
Well when changing to 1,000,000 that uses a Number Value or Int Value. But if you are wanting to change it to 1M or 1B then you use a string value.
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Ok, what I gave you was a function to shorten the numbers. You need a number to put into that function. Get the players Cactus Coins(really?) into the shorten function, and make whatever comes out be the stringValue.
Ok alright I was a little bit confused now I get it. Thanks dude! (Also who's gonna be laughing when in 2 years from now Cactus City is gonna be so popular with its trendy cactus coins? HMMMM?)