Assigning a variable with a player that doesn't exist

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#1

Hi, I’ll explain the issue here:

-- Say I have a variable that could contain a player

local T1Player1 = player

-- Then I try to access this players leaderstats

local T1Player1InitialKills = T1Player1:FindFirstChild("leaderstats").Kills.Value

-- If T1Player1 is actually = nil would this line above break the code? Or since I added findfirstchild would it just skip over it if T1Player1 is nil?

Thanks for any help (I know I could just add an if statement to check if T1Player1 is nil, but I have to do this for 6 players so i’m just trying to shorten the code so it doesn’t look as messy)

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#2

If it was nil then it wouldn’t have the :FindFirstChild() method, and lua will return the error “Attempt to index nil with FindFirstChild”

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#3

Is there any other way of doing this in a single line? Basically I want to check a players leaderstat, but that player could be = nil

#4

Adding on, if you wanted to shorten the code and only check whether the initial kills variable existed, you could do:

local T1Player1InitialKills = T1Player1 and T1Player1:FindFirstChild("leaderstats").Kills.Value
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#5

Thank you both very much :slight_smile:

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#6

Sorry just a quick question. If the player is = nil, then what will the variable T1Player1InitialKills get assigned to?

#7

Either false or nil (probably nil), which both equal false if used as a condition.

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