Attempt to concatenate Instance with String

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#1

Hi there, I’m finishing updating my plugin to add a create teleport system feature, but I’m struggling on one line:

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Here is the plugin if needed: blisstools.rbxmx (346.6 KB)

Thank you in advance.

#2

ptparent:FindFirstChild(part.Name).Name

#3

Isn’t that just going to give the same error? I’ll try anyways

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Yep, same error

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#4

I’m not sure why you’re trying to find an instance via its name in order to index its name property, you could just replace the entire thing with ..part.Name.. instead.

#5

This causes an error I believe anyways.

#6

try putting part.Name into tostring()

#7

Because your concentrating a string with an instance like

instance…string

you need a string-valid type

#8

@Forummer error this causes

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#9

That’s an entirely different portion of the script.

#10

That part has to work as well, and by changing that, it causes the plugin to no longer error, but the script errors instead.

Just been told about part:GetFullName(), so I’m going to try that

#11

An instances name property should be a string value, your error likely stems from some other string concatenation attempt.

#12

Why would “:GetFullName()” change anything? That’s essentially the same as indexing the instances name property but it provides the instances path as well (name of ancestors).

#13

I needed the instance’s path for this, so players can teleport to the part

part:GetFullName() does seem to work fully though.

#14

You just need a reference to the instance for that, not the entire path.

#15

For clarity, would you mind sharing the entire string concatenation portion?

#16

I’ve already made it work with part:GetFullName(), that section of the script was the only section that needed to use concatenation

#17

There’s code missing from the provided screenshot & it would be helpful to users facing a similar issue.

#18

I posted the entire’s plugin code lol

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local tppart = ptparent:FindFirstChild(part.Name) 

[[
	script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
	local plrs = game:GetService("Players")
	local tp = tppart
	local tplocation = CFrame.new(tp.CFrame.X, tp.CFrame.Y + 5, tp.CFrame.Z)
	plrs.LocalPlayer.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(tplocation)
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Visible = false
	end)
]]

Fairly obvious what the issue was with the full source code.

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