Basically the above question.

I'm trying to use return to return both a boolean value and a string. I am making a chat filter for my chat GUI, and I am using a function that checks whether a chat is in compliance with the filter and then returns whether that chat was in compliance or not and what the reason was (if it was not compliant).

The function in question is below (it is a global function because I plan to use it in other scripts).

_G.CheckFilter = function(chat)
	lower = chat:lower()
 	-- the chat filter is here. It contains some words that I am not sure are in compliance with guidelines, so it has been removed
} 

	for key, value in pairs(filtered) do
		if lower:find(key) then
			return true, value
		end
	end
end

And then it is called in the following code:

debounce = false

script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Chatted:connect(function(msg)
	lower = msg:lower()
	if player.Name == "Kaamchor" or player.Name == "Devinoski" or player.Name == "darkyellow56" then
		if string.lower(msg:sub(1, 6)) == "system" then
			_G.Chat(msg:sub(8), "SYSTEM")
		end
	end
	if debounce == false and string.lower(msg:sub(1, 6)) ~= "system" then
		debounce = true
		local filt, reason = _G.CheckFilter(msg)
		if filt then
			_G.Chat("This message by " .. player.Name .. " was filtered because of: " .. reason .. ".", "SYSTEM")
			wait(3)
			debounce = false
		else
			_G.Chat(msg, player.Name)
			wait(1)
			debounce = false
		end
	end
end)
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