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How can I get the name of a service and use it like a variabe?

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I don't want to do game.StarterPlayer because I have a script that changes the name of it every second, so I want to get the name of the StarterPlayer service ans use it in a variable.

This is my code that isn't working:

local lol = game:GetService("StarterPlayer"):GetFullName()

wait()
lol.CameraMaxZoomDistance = 1
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:GetFullName() returns a string -- just do local lol = game:GetService("StarterPlayer") and it should work

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As described in the comment by fredfishy, you'll want to use local lol = game:GetService("StarterPlayer")

Doing so will create a variable lol that points to StarterPlayer.

By doing the :GetFullName() method, you're creating a variable of the text "game.StarterPlayer" which shouldn't help you in what you want to accomplish.

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