How to get all the parents of parents

[EekPlayz09 (PVP_ImUnclePeteInBed)]

Basicly i have a part, and I need to find if this part is in a folder, so i need to find parents of the part and see if its in this folder, but i dont know line for that, bit like getchildren() but in reverse

[EekPlayz09 (PVP_ImUnclePeteInBed)]

i want t o be able to search mutiple parents like, objects parent, parent, parent, like a list of all objects a bit like getchildren

[Pure_Bacn]

Can you tell us what you’re trying to make? There may be a better way to do whatever you’re trying to do.

[Malenz (alexi)]

function getAncestors(object)
	local Ancestors = {}
	local currentObject = object
	
	while currentObject.Parent do
		table.insert(Ancestors, currentObject.Parent)
		currentObject = currentObject.Parent
	end
	
	return Ancestors
end

Function returns a table of the objects ancestors, Table[1] being it’s parent

[Pure_Bacn]

Hold up I’m blind. To check if an object is a descendant of another object, I believe you can just use part:IsDescendantOf(folder)

So if you have an object like workspace.a
You can do
workspace.a:IsDescendantOf(workspace) which should return true

[yo9sa (yosa)]

did u need

:FindFirstAncestor()

?

[Pure_Bacn]

You could use that but IsDescendantOf is more straight forward.

[yo9sa (yosa)]

It all depends on the case, as far as I understand, it needs to determine the most important parent of the element, IsDescendantOf(ancestor: Instance) will only work if we know the name of the parent, and here we need to find it from scratch.

if he means a parent whose name we know, both options will be correct. So yes, I agree with you.

[Pure_Bacn]

He dos say he wants to find if a part is in a folder, so I guessed that he already knew what the folder was, but we’ll see when he responds lol.