How can I clean out nil?

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#1

Hey so pretty much I’ve been working on a game with lots of effects and I know that if a server lasts long enough more errors over time will occur such as people logging mid-fight which can result in somethings being left behind in nil.

I have made sure to use pcalls and remove everything if something errors but just incase that fails I was wondering if there was a way to check if something is in nil.

I want to make a cleanup script where if something has been sitting in nil for X amount of time it will get removed. Is there anyway to find stuff inside of nil?

#2

As long as you do :Destroy() on instances that support it
they should be cleared up when the garbage collector does its thing.
(Doing x = nil for variables is entirely different, only instances can “appear in nil”)

But as of right now (in roblox 2021) you cannot delete, see, or edit anything inside of nil. That is handled by roblox entirely.

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#3

This is not always the case. It depends on your security of the game, and it isn’t Roblox’s problem.

This depends, if it’s a data type inside a table, you can’t remove nil.

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