How could I print a players name just once?

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Hey! So I’m making a “Winner” part which basically prints a players name if they touch the part. I don’t want to take any credit or anything but the script was made by MarkiPr0឵8 who helped me fix a previous issue which the script had.

Anyways, here is the script:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local WinnerCoin = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("WinnerCoin")
local Names = {}
local Part = script.Parent

Part.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)

		if not Hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then return end
		Names[#Names+1] = Hit.Parent.Name
		WinnerCoin.Value = ("Winners: "..(table.concat(Names, ", ")))

end)

What I want to achieve is that when a player touches it, I just want it to print the players name just once, I tried debounce but that isn’t really efficient. Also have heard to store the usernames in a string boolean dictionary but I’m not that familiar with that. :sweat_smile:

Any help is appreciated!

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print(Hit.Parent.name)

thats about all. just add that inside the function after the check for the humanoid.

3

Make a table that stores all the winners, if someone touches the part and their name isn’t on the winner list then add it and print the name

4

Check if the player.Name is already in the Names table. If it is, then don’t print it again.

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How would I check if the player is in the table or not?

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you can use table.find() and use a if statment to see if its in there

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local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local WinnerCoin = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("WinnerCoin")
local Names = {}
local Part = script.Parent
local foundPlayer = false -- boolean which tells if we found the same player

Part.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)

		if not Hit.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then return end
		for i,v in ipairs(Names) do
           if v == Hit.Parent.Name then foundPlayer = true break end
         
        end
        if not foundPlayer then
           Names[#Names+1] = Hit.Parent.Name
           WinnerCoin.Value = ("Winners: "..(table.concat(Names, ", ")))
        end
        foundPlayer = false
end)

This is just one way of doing it.

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9

Oh that has worked! Thank you! :slight_smile:

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No problem!

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