Help with yielding a coroutine

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Hello! this is related a bit too my last post, but I’m trying to stop a script without disabling it, I’ve come to using coroutine but I’m a bit confused on how to yield correctly, whenever I try it delivers no error but the script keeps running? (Note this is after coroutine.yield() has been used) The code is on a loop with a wait(timeperattack) between but how would I just end it mid wait(timeperattack))

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you won’t be able to make it end during the wait()
I’d instead set a boolean to say something like “stop looping” after the wait and before any actions are done

depending on the case, you may want to use a bindableEvent, but the basic idea is this:

local continueLooping = true

-- infinite loop in thread until continueLooping=false
coroutine.wrap(function()
   while continueLooping do
      print("A")
      wait(1)
   end
end)()

wait(10)
continueLooping = false

this has the issue of having a delay for whatever is in the thread and after the loop ends, so I’d call a function to handle those actions immediately after setting continueLoop to false

3

Thank you, but this is what my script is already doing, the issue is just the mid wait() how would i do the function thing you described at the bottom

4

the function would pretty much be:

function endLoop()
   continueLooping = false
   print("B")
end

this way, B would print as soon as you want the loop to end, and A wouldnt print anymore

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hmmm is there anyway to remove a thread? or stopping or removing?

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you can’t do that from outside of the thread
after that loop ends and the function ends, the thread should be available to be garbage collected though

7

yeah thats what its currently doing, im just stuck because the code just runs with nil info and creates errors and lags.(Because its within the wait’s)

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if there’s more than one wait(), then you can place an if statement to break the loop after each wait()

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while continueLooping do
   print("A")
   wait(2)
   if not continueLooping then
      break
   end

   print("B")
   wait(2)
   if not continueLooping then
      break
   end

   print("C")
   wait(2)
end

also, I think repeat until is better for this than while

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