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Not sure why something isn't printing?

function fire(target) ------fire
	print("fire")
	p = script.Parent.Parent.missile:Clone()
	p.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
	p.Position = script.Parent.Position + Vector3.new(0, 2, 0)
	p.Anchored = false
	p.Name = "missile"..math.random(-9999, 9999)
	p.Script.Disabled = false
end


function main() ------- Main
	for i, v in pairs(Workspace:GetChildren()) do
		--print(v)
		if v.Name == "Target" then
			--print("target1")
			if (script.Parent.Position - v.Position).magnitude < range then
				print("in range")				
				target = v
				targetfound = true
				print("Targetfound == "..targetfound) ------------print
				repeat -----repeat
					for i = 1, 32 do
					move(target)
					wait(reload/32)
					end
					fire(target)
				until
					target == nil or (script.Parent.Position - target.Position).magnitude > range	
					print("target lost")
					targetfound = false	
			end
		end
	end
	wait(.5)
end 

while true do ---------- While loop
	print(targetfound)
	if targetfound == false then
		main()
		print("main")
	else
		wait(1)	
	end
end

Ok, I know I just dumped a lot of code one you, but I'll explain my quandary now. This is my auto-turret script, and I'm trying to figure out some weird printing occurrences. In the while loop I check everytime if targetfound is equal to false. For this example assume that it is. Then we go up to the function main(). A couple lines into main I wrote print("Targetfound == "..targetfound) but this never prints. The script seems to skip over that line and go straight to the repeat section. While it is running the repeat section though, the script is also printing targetfound in the while loop, which prints as false. Please tell me if I need to rephrase my question/explain some of my code.

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✓ Accepted answer

it won't print because you can't concatenate a boolean. The right way to code it would be like this: print("Targetfound == "..tostring(targetfound))

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Thanks :)

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