How to store specific value

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#1

I want to store a value of 14:30:00 in a script I used the textlabel method but is there a more efficient way?

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#3

What is your goal? (what are you trying to do with the value? save it? or make like a clock out of it?)

#4

In a variable?

local time = "14:30:00"

#5

i want to be able to use it in another piece of code in the script

#6

Maybe an int value in server storage maybe? I don’t really get what you mean

#7

yes i want to know if there is a more efficient way to make it a variable so i dont have to do tonumber()

#8

make it a local variable, because then you can use it within the entire script

#9

You can store hour and minute in separate variables and just concatenate them with a “:” …

local hour = 14
local minute = 30
local time = hour .. ":" .. minute
#10

if i do a red line appears under

#11

say local value = 14:30:00

replace value with whatever the name of your value is.

or go with what @ComplicatedParadigm said, and do:

local hour = 14
local minute = 30
local time = hour ... ":" ... minute
#12

You could use functions to encode and decode text to seconds, and the opposite:

local value = "02:30:00"

--converts text like the one shown above, to seconds
function toSeconds(val) 
	local split = val:split(":") 
	local hoursToSeconds = split[1]*3600
	local minutesToSeconds = split[2]*60 
	local seconds = split[3]
	return hoursToSeconds+minutesToSeconds+seconds 
end

--formatting function(so zeros don't get removed, for example 02:04:00)
function f(val)
	return string.format("%02i", val)
end

--receives and text, and converts it to seconds
function toText(val) 
	local hours = math.floor(val/3600)
	val -= hours*3600
	local minutes = math.floor(val/60)
	val -= minutes*60 
	local seconds = math.floor(val)
	return f(hours)..":"..f(minutes)..":"..f(seconds)
end

local seconds = toSeconds(value)
print(seconds)
local text = toText(seconds)
print(text)

PS: the code works when it’s tested for game.Lighting.TimeOfDay