How do I find a specific value on a folder?

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I am currently working on a invite/party system, but I have a bug that I don’t know how to fix. I want to find a specific value on a folder, for example something like

FindFirstChild(Value)

But I’ve realized that using FindFirstChild only gets the name of the value, and not the actual value. Is there any way to make this work so that it finds the actual value instead of the value’s name?

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FindFirstChild(Value).Value
not sure if i understand you correctly, but is this what youre looking for?

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I don’t know if that would work because the thing here is that, each of the values have a different name and I am trying to look for the specific value without having to use the value’s name (Sorry if that sounds confusing)

4

uh yea that is a bit confusing could yo explain a bit more what are you trying to do

5

Okay, so basically I am scripting a party system, and everytime a player gets accepted into a lobby a value is cloned & it has a different name, (E.G, Player1, Player2, etc…)
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And I want to do something like

local CheckDuplicate = playersServer.Players:FindFirstChild(asker)
if asker then return end

But the problem is that FindFirstChild only works with object names [From what I’ve heard] and I want to make it work so that it looks through the folder and detects that specific value, instead of detecting the value’s name.

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So the only thing you should use is for loop.

for i, asker in pairs (playersServer.Players:GetChildren()) do
    if asker.Name == "Something" then
        
    end
end

If there is something different from the values’ class names, simply do

for i, asker in pairs (playersServer.Players:GetChildren()) do
    if asker.ClassName == "IntValue" then -- You can change the class name, I don't what you are using
        if asker.Name == "Something" then
        
        end
    end
end
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Okay, so I’ve rewrote your script a little, and I am wondering if this would also work.
Here’s my script

remotes.AcceptInvite.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, asker)
	print(asker)
	if asker then
		local server = game.ReplicatedStorage.Servers:FindFirstChild(player.Name .. " Server")
		local children = server.Players:GetChildren()
		for i, child in ipairs(children) do
			if child.Value ~= asker.Name then
				server.AmountOfPlayers.Value = server.AmountOfPlayers.Value + 1
				print("Added Value")
				local p_Clone = server.Players.Player1:Clone()
				p_Clone.Value = asker.Name
				p_Clone.Name = "Player" .. server.AmountOfPlayers.Value
				print("Added Player")
				p_Clone.Parent = server.Players
				remotes.ClientRemotes.ShowPlayerScreen:FireClient(asker, server)
				print("Sent Remote")
			end
		end
	end
end)