Attribute seems to be nil

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  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I’m trying to perform arithmetic operation with the value of an attribute.
  2. What is the issue?
    I was working on some stuff to practice with attributes, but apparently my attribute is “nil” but when I go in game and check it, the value of it is 1.
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  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    Well uhm the problem isnt that it cant find where the attribute is (I created inside of a folder). I dont know if this is relevant but I created my attribute in a local script, and im trying to perform the action in server.
	character.Stats:SetAttribute("Fatigue", (character.Stats:GetAttribute("Fatigue")) + 5)

The output says : “attempt to perform arithmetic (add) on nil and number”

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I would personally rather just use integer values in your folder but using attributes is fine. Try this line of code:

	character.Stats:SetAttribute("Fatigue", (character.Stats:GetAttribute("Fatigue")) += 5) -- changed from '+' to '+='

Changes: ‘+’ to ‘+=’

What you could also do is do an if statement where if the attribute is nil it prints something for debugging purposes.

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Thanks for the help, sadly making it += didnt exactly helped but however I kinda fixed it by making the attribute value equal to 1 before making the adding 5 to it, Im not sure why that was a problem if fatigue was already 1 but whatever it just works.

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This probably occurred because the attribute you made in Edit Mode was probably named “Fatigue*” (* means a space) instead of “Fatigue”. Whenever an error like this happens, make sure the naming is correct

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