Check every string in table

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Hello There!
I want to check every string in table with “if” statement.
I want to make that when the script finds “Rarity”, then it does not execute the code

First of all I make function that it add everything in table
In print it looks like this:
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function AutoDelete:CheckVariables(Player)
	if Player.Character then		
		local AutoDeleteFolder = Player:WaitForChild("AutoDeleteFolder")
		local AutoDeleteVariables = {}
		
		for _,v in pairs(AutoDeleteFolder:GetChildren()) do
			if v.Value == true then
				table.insert(AutoDeleteVariables, v)
			end
		end
		return AutoDeleteVariables
	end
end

then I make Main Script where I want to check it

local PetChoosedRandom = self:ChooseRandomPet(Player, Egg)
for i,v in pairs(Pets) do
	if v.Name == PetChoosedRandom then
-- Here Checking Variable and if not find PetRarity Name from Auto-Delete not executing it.
		if AutoDeleteModule:CheckVariables(Player) ~= PetRarity.Value then
			local Clone = Pet:Clone()
			Clone.Parent = Player.PlayerPets
		end
	end
end

Thanks for any help

2

You can execute a function when a string is not found in a table with something like this:

local tableOfStrings = {
	"Common",
	"Rare",
	"Legendary"
}

local function FunctionToExecute()
	print("The function executed")
end

local function ExecuteIfNotFound(stringToLookFor)
	for index, value in ipairs(tableOfStrings) do
		if value == stringToLookFor then
			return --exit the function if it found it
		end
	end
	FunctionToExecute() --this will get executed if the string is not found
end

ExecuteIfNotFound("something that doesn't exist") --> will print "The function executed"
ExecuteIfNotFound("Rare") --> will not print anything
3

If you want to check if PetRarity.Value is not present inside the table returned by CheckVariables(), you can use a function called table.find which searches the table for a specific value, like this:

local PetChoosedRandom = self:ChooseRandomPet(Player, Egg)
for i,v in pairs(Pets) do
	if v.Name == PetChoosedRandom then
		if not table.find(AutoDeleteModule:CheckVariables(Player), PetRarity.Value) then
			local Clone = Pet:Clone()
			Clone.Parent = Player.PlayerPets
		end
	end
end

Also I assume the values inserted into AutoDeleteVariables are instances with the names of the rarity values? So you’ll have to insert their names instead of the instances themselves for it to work:

function AutoDelete:CheckVariables(Player)
	if Player.Character then		
		local AutoDeleteFolder = Player:WaitForChild("AutoDeleteFolder")
		local AutoDeleteVariables = {}
		
		for _,v in pairs(AutoDeleteFolder:GetChildren()) do
			if v.Value == true then
				table.insert(AutoDeleteVariables, v.Name) --insert the name
			end
		end
		return AutoDeleteVariables
	end
end

Also you might want to implement some error handling for when the player has no character and CheckVariables doesn’t return anything

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