Basically what I am trying to do is:
local path = "game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid"
print(path.Health)
Is there any way to do something like this?
COMMUNITY QUESTION
String to Path? Possible?
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Not that I know of. The closest you can probably get is :FindFirstChild().
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You cannot do this fully, however you can implement a String substitute. I haven't tested if you can use a full pathway, however, I'm sure the first reference of the pathway would have to remain legitimate if you could.
Substitution is mainly used to gain access to a descendant that has a whitespace character, making it a mandatory operation to reference it:
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character["Humanoid"]
--// or
local Character = workspace["Feahren"]
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I don't think this is what he was looking for. I don't even think what he was looking for can normally be done, but with string manipulation, he can achieve something similar to it, although I don't understand why he's go through all that trouble.
These other answers are wrong, you definitely can do this with LoadStringEnabled set to true.
local path = "game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid"
loadstring("print(" .. path .. ".Health)")
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If you use free models, and you should never use free models, putting LoadStringEnabled on is a pretty risky move. Exploiters use backdoors put into free models to get remote access to the game, and allowing loadstrings will let them run literally anything.
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You would have to parse it by . then use FindFirstChild recursively. I am unsure why you would need this.
I am 99% sure you cannot do this.
Here's a way of doing it (: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/convert-string-to-instance/385716