I don't really remember how to use it, but I remember that people say you use it to not get errors or something...
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How to use pcall? I'm pretty new to it
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local Success,Message = pcall(function() -- Success = a bool if it runs without error, Message is the error.
print("hey")
end)
if Success then -- Checks if it is true.
print("hey it worked")
else
print("Failed: "..Message)
end
local Success,Message = pcall(function() -- Success = a bool if it runs without error, Message is the error.
pritnt("hey")
end)
if Success then -- Checks if it is true.
print("hey it worked")
else
print("Failed: "..Message)
end
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So what can this be used for?
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Basically to surround a piece of code within' the pcall to continue the rest of the script even after it errors.
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You should only use pcall when there are errors that you CANNOT avoid, like the ones thrown by DataStores. You should not use pcall to "solve" your programming mistakes.