How do I convert the result of a function into a string lua

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#23

I’m sorry for asking to many questions here but how would I do that
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#24

I think you should learn Lua before trying to take on this project… This is pretty basic stuff. The user might not always return a value so in that case you need to handle if executeCode() returns a nil value.

#25

No but I put a valid command and it still returned nil its able to print the function just fine but it returns nil when I try to apply it to text

EDIT: after further work it turns out that whatever command I set the functions string to be it will always return nil except if I print it the function as if I print it it will print 2 versions. One will be blank and says it executed on the line 8 where my print function is and the other one will be the result of the function correctly printed but says it was executed on line 1?

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#26 
local executeCode = loadstring('...')()
print(executeCode())

Try maybe to remove the () to the loadstring end

#27

That just prints the location of the function

#28

Are you trying to make it return “oof” when you run print("oof")?

#29

yes that’s exactly it. the reason i put oof was because it was the first thing i thought off i can make it anything but i just choose oof

#30

You could try overriding the built in print function with a custom one that writes stuff on your textlabel

local TextLabel = workspace.Baseplate.SurfaceGui.TextLabel

local function print_custom(...)
	TextLabel.Text = TextLabel.Text .. "\n" .. table.concat({...}, " ")
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player, Code)
	local old_print = print
	print = print_custom
	local f = loadstring(Code)
	print = old_print
	f()
end)

#31

That’s great but I really want this to run actual Lua as I think just writing custom commands for every Lua command would be very time consuming compared to just making it run actual Lua and not just a bunch of custom commands. the things suppose to run most lua commands not just print

#32

You could do the same thing with things returned from the function. print doesn’t return anything, it just writes text to the output. I don’t see how this isn’t running “actual Lua”

local result = loadstring("return 2 + 2")()
if result then
    TextLabel.Text ..= "\n" .. tostring(result)
end

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#33

The result is now returning nil even though even though it can print the string fine

#34

Update I know this post is dead but I would just like to say Thanks to everyone who helped me as I finally got this running