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Not a valid member of DataModel?
Hi. I'm making a small command system, and it's going pretty well. I've stumbled upon an issue where I'm trying to print the number of children in a certain directory. It works well for simple things like workspace, or Lighting, until you get to things like workspace.B_Iu. The script is below:
function Run(ChatService)
ChatService:RegisterProcessCommandsFunction("prt", function(speakerName, message, channel)
if speakerName == "B_Iu" then
if string.sub(message, 1, 5) == ";prtc" then
local dir = string.sub(message, 7)
local val = #game[""..dir..""]:GetChildren()
print("There are currently ".. val .." objects in the ".. dir)
end
end
return false
end)
end
return Run
It returns an error of "DoProcessCommands Function 'prt' failed for reason: workspace.B_Iu is not a valid member of DataModel." Not sure how I can get past this.
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That's because the [] brackets evaluate the string. So doing game["Workspace"] it's equal to game.Workspace, but if you do game["workspace.B_Iu"] then it looks for an instance named literally workspace.B_Iu under the DataModel.
Try doing something like this:
function Run(ChatService)
ChatService:RegisterProcessCommandsFunction("prt", function(speakerName, message, channel)
if speakerName == "B_Iu" then
if string.sub(message, 1, 5) == ";prtc" then
local dir = string.sub(message, 7)
local val = #loadstring([[return game.]] .. dir .. [[:GetChildren()]])()
print("There are currently ".. val .." objects in the ".. dir)
end
end
return false
end)
end
return Run
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Thank you! B_Iu 31 — 6y