I'm new to coding and so while trying to learn what certain commands I have seen a few scripts in which there will be a line like
local player
or
local humanoid
I wasn't sure if they had a purpose so I tested those scripts removing these lines and the script would immediately crash. What is the purpose of these, and what does it mean when they have no "=" to define them as something else?
Those are variables that will be referred to later. Here is a section of my scripts that I apply it in:
local mainDataTable -- here I name the variable
local success, message = pcall(function()
mainDataTable = mainDataStore:GetAsync(specialKey) -- here I assign it a value. If I had done local mainDataTable inside this function then the rest of the script would not be able to use it. So I set the variable first then gave it a value
end)
Hope this helps and have a great day scripting!
That explains a lot, thank you!
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writing "local player" is the same as writing "local player = nil", it's only purpose is to assign the variable
No problem!