How to detect a single value

[YT0674 (justa)]

I’m not sure if the title matches the topic. I don’t really know what name I should give this problem. I’m currently working on adding pets to my game, but I ran into a little issue that I don’t know how to fix. Whenever I click on a pet in my inventory, it should say if it’s equipped or not. The problem is that it only says “Unequip Pet” on the last pet that I equipped, it doesn’t say it on the pets before that.

for i, v in pairs(scrollingframe:GetDescendants()) do
			if v.Name == "NewSelect" then
				if v.Text == "1" then
					local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
					for i2, v2 in pairs(player.Character.Pets:GetDescendants()) do
						if v2:IsA("StringValue") then
							local selectedPetUUID = v.Parent.UUID.Value
							local equippedPetUUIDS = v2.Value
							print(equippedPetUUIDS)
							if selectedPetUUID ~= equippedPetUUIDS then
								PetInfo.EquipPet.Text = "Equip Pet"
							else
								PetInfo.EquipPet.Text = "Unequip Pet"
							end
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end

I’m guessing this is because of the order of the pets. I put a print inside the script, and this is the result:

The second value is the value of the second pet that I equipped.
How would I fix this problem?

[Katrist]

Tell me if this changes anything:

for i, v in ipairs(scrollingframe:GetDescendants()) do
	if v.Name ~= "NewSelect" or v.Text ~= "1" then
		continue
	end
	
	local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
	
	for i2, v2 in ipairs(player.Character.Pets:GetDescendants()) do
		if v2:IsA("StringValue") then
			local selectedPetUUID = v.Parent.UUID.Value
			local equippedPetUUIDS = v2.Value
			print(equippedPetUUIDS)
			
			if selectedPetUUID == equippedPetUUIDS then
				PetInfo.EquipPet.Text = "Unequip Pet"

				break
			else
				PetInfo.EquipPet.Text = "Equip Pet"
			end
		end
	end
end

[YT0674 (justa)]

Yup works perfectly fine, so thank you! Can you tell me why exactly? I see that you changed pairs to ipairs. What is the difference between them?

[Katrist]

I just changed that because ipairs is canonically supposed to be used for arrays like :GetDescendants(). That wasn’t the fix though, I just changed it because it would perform slightly better.

The break I added was the fix. It stops the loop when it is called. Your problem was that when the correct pet was labelled, it would change the text to “Unequip Pet” but then when it looped into another unequipped pet, it would change back to “Equip Pet” when it should’ve stayed at “Unequip Pet”. Break prevents this from happening by stopping the loop when you change the text to “Unequip Pet”.

Sorry if my explanation was confusing, it’s hard to explain this for me.

[YT0674 (justa)]

Ah I see. Thank you for also explaining.

[Katrist]

No problem, here’s an explanation of break in code form if you need it:

for i = 1, 100 do
	--//Prints the value
	print(i)
	
	--//Checks if value is 55, then stops the loop
	if i == 55 then
		break
	end
end

--//Last number it prints should be 55

Have a good day!