How do i delete a certain variable from a datastore

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#1

to be clear, i dont want it to FULLY be gone from all players. what im trying to make here, is that ill make a “kills” variable for each class, which, for every one of those classes youll be able to wipe your progress, just deleting that variable. now, i do kiiiind of know how to make variables in the datastore, i can just do

table.insert(playerdata, {[plr.class.Value.."KILLS"] = 0}) -- playerdata is gonna be saved, plr.class is the class value (string) please tell me if this will work because im not that sure

so, now if i wanna delete this variable, can i just do playerdata.classnamehereKILLS = nil?? or will just make it nil and not delete it?
-forgot to mention this, i tried using table.remove but it seemed to not even do anything. also, tried doing table[classnamehereKILLS] = nil buut it simply set it to nil and didnt destroy it.

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#2

Do you want to reset plr.class.Value…“KILLS” value or just remove it?

#3

probably just remove it so that it doesnt show up in the gui

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#4

If you want it to not show on your gui, I think you can set it to nil and then check if the value is nil, it hides that stat on the gui

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#5

oh yeah, that will definitely work. although if anyone does know how to entirely wipe out the variable from existence… please reply anyway. for now ill make this the solution tho

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#6

Any non-existant value is basically nil on tables, so when you set a value to nil, It basically removes it

#7

oh? didnt really know that. always thought that every variable thats saved as nil just doesnt store anything but still exists.

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