Having trouble with string splitting

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i’m trying to make a dress up game, there are custom meshes and i’m currently testing with skirts, it is supposed to save the outfit in a string like this

!Accessory type: Color1R, Color1G, Color1B;Color2R, Color2G, Color2B;Color3R, Color3G, Color3B;Color4R, Color4G, Color4B;Color5R, Color5G, Color5B:Name of the accessory

so basically the"!" divides every item, the “:” divides in three part the accessory name , colors, and name of the accessory the “;” divides the 5 colors of the accessory and the ", " divides the colors RGB.

i don’t want to use different string for each cause the player has to be able to use as many accessories as he wants

i don’t know how to check if the player has already a skirt on though, i tried with this so far

``
local Message = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.leaderstats.Outfit.Value
local SplitMessage = string.split(Message, “!”)
local AssetInfo = string.split(SplitMessage, “:”)
local Type, coloring, nameof= AssetInfo[1], AssetInfo[2], AssetInfo[3]
if Type== “Skirt” then
AssetInfo= " "
end
Message=Message…"!Skirt:1,1,1;1,1,1;1,1,1;1,1,1;1,1,1:SkirtTest"

``
with this i’m trying to detect if the player has a skirt on and delete the string part with it so the script can add a line for the new skirt accessory

2

This is quite complicated method for making an Outfit system

Make sure the Message variable is not nil

Also your script have wrong spaces

Also type == "Skirt" then is wrongly misplaced

I will explain what it is

When you spilit them, the 1st string will be "Accessory type: Skirt" not "Skirt"

Try debugging

3

This doesn’t answer your question, but it’s a suggestion to make your life easier: you could just make an outfit a table instead of a string:

local outfit = {
  type = "Skirt",
  colors = { {1, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0} },
  name = "Something"
}

There are ways to organize your code where you shouldn’t ever need to store this in a StringValue.

But if you must, you can use HttpService:JSONEncode(outfit) to turn it into a string, and JSONDecode(encodedString) to turn it back into a table.

Here’s a short example:

local http = game:GetService("HttpService")

local function printOutfit(outfit)
	print("Outfit:")
	print("  Type:", outfit.type)
	print("  Colors:", outfit.colors)
	print("  Name:", outfit.name)
end

local outfit = {
	type = "Skirt",
	colors = {{1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}, {1, 1, 1}},
	name = "SkirtTest"
}

warn("Original outfit:")
printOutfit(outfit)

local outfitAsString = http:JSONEncode(outfit)
-- ^ could put that in a StringValue or whatever...
warn("Converted to a string:")
print(outfitAsString)

-- ...and load it back
local outfitBackAsTable = http:JSONDecode(outfitAsString)
warn("Converted back to a table:")
printOutfit(outfitBackAsTable)

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4

Anyways to answer your question, SplitMessage is a table, i.e. a list “!”-separated strings.

So you can’t call string.split on it directly, you’ll have to loop through it.