How do I correctly nil to tell if something exists?

Asked Oct 2, 2019219 views1 answers

if v.leaderstats.Rank == nil then
	script.Parent.Main.EditBox.PlayerRole.Text = "Guest"
else
	script.Parent.Main.EditBox.PlayerRole.Text = v.leaderstats.Rank.Value
end

The entire script is not important, all I need is for it to see if the intvalue "Rank" exists. Nil doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to correctly tell if something is actually nil or not?

AnonymousOct 2, 2019

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If you wanting to see if an instance exists or not you can do ..

if not v.leaderstats.Rank then
    script.Parent.Main.EditBox.PlayerRole.Text = "Guest"
else
    script.Parent.Main.EditBox.PlayerRole.Text = v.leaderstats.Rank.Value
end

doing it like that would make it the equivalent of a Boolean

AnonymousOct 2, 2019Edited Oct 2, 2019Permalink

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Edit: added the not in, essentially says if v.leaderstats.Rank is not true(exists) then...

AnonymousOct 2, 2019#

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