How to do this without a million elseif's

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#1

Hello devs!

I’ve been making a plugin for the last few hours that lets you use tools to quickly create parts, save part settings, insert a player’s avatar and more.

When I got to the material part, I obviously have a whole bunch of buttons. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I’d go about changing the material without using a million elseif statements. Obviously Enum.Material.VariableName wouldn’t work, and it’s 12 AM right now so my brain is working at 5% efficiency.

I’ve tried looking for problems similar on the devforum but came up short.

Here’s the list of materials I have:
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I don’t think the code is necessary, but if you need some of the code I wrote I can supply!

Thank you in advance for any help at all!

Best regards,
Amora

#2

Maybe make it get rid of it’s spaces and get the string that has no spaces and do this:

Enum.Material[nospacesthingy]
#3

Gahhh! Thank you so much!
My brain is barely functioning right now and I can’t think at all. If I wasn’t so determined to finish this tonight I prob would’ve done that.

You’re a literal life saver! I’m so sleep deprived :sob:

#4

iirc you can utilize Enum.Materials:GetEnumItems(), what this method does is just return an array of the enums, and since you are using them you can just use a for loop and iterate through the Enums and get all the info you need from them

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#5

That too is efficient, but this only bases off one line of code.

#6

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