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Please help me with this loop...Trying to make it restart if a certain value = ""?

So I'm making a game, and I want it to check the value of a Value after a certain amount of time, and display Map Chosen: [Whatever Value] but if the value was equal to nothing, meaning no one voted, it would restart the cycle, but I have 0 clue on how to do this. This is what im attempting:

while true do
local val = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("MapChosen")
print("Voting For Map...")
wait(16)
if MapChosen.Value == "" then
	print("No one voting... re-voting")
	wait(3)
	print("Voting For Map...")
-- Here's where I have the issue. I don't know how to make it restart the loop from here. I want it to go back to line 4, but since there's no 'goto' commands, I have 0 clue how to.
end
else
print("Map Chosen: "..MapChosen.Value")
end

Any Help will be appreciated.

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

Use repeat wait() until --parameterHere

while true do -- might want to change this
	local val = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("MapChosen")
	print("Voting For Map...")
	wait(16) -- if you still want to keep this given the below line
	repeat wait(3) until MapChosen.Value ~= "" -- pauses script until MapChosen exists
	print("Map Chosen: "..MapChosen.Value")
end

I might have an idea? im not very good at this so this may possibly not work


while true do
local val = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("MapChosen")
print("Voting For Map...")
while true do
	wait(16)
	if MapChosen.Value == "" then
 	   print("No one voting... re-voting")
   	 wait(3)
  	  print("Voting For Map...")
	wait()
	else
	break
print("Map Chosen: "..MapChosen.Value")
end


(put it in a while true do loop, but if a map was picked it'll break the loop)

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