How would I compare datastore data?

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#21

What is the “Stats” Data ?

It might not be Greater than your Data Store Value

#22

If there is no error message from printing the two variables then I don’t know what’s wrong.

The other possibility though is that if it’s your first time calling Data:GetAsync(v.UserId) for that person, you’re going to return nil and it will error if you try and compare nil and number.

#23

Stats is the current reign in the datastore which is stored in server storage.

#24

It is not the first time because the leaderboard loads my previous data but not the updated data.

#25

Could you try using

Data:GetAsync(tostring(v.UserId))

Also is the Stats Data a Boolean Value(True or false) or some other Data Type(Number, String Vector3, etc)

#26

hm that might work because everything is set has number values.

#27

No it still does not work, nothing is getting past the if statement.

#28

What Value is stored in “Stats” ? as i said before it might not be greater than the Data Store Value

#29

The data store is called monthlyReignLeaderboard V:1

#30

Ok well what is the Value of “Stats” ?

#31

The value of stats is how long the player was alive before dieing. I do the < so the value would not decrease its best time.

#32

Stats is a built in roblox function try renaming your Variable

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#33

still getting nil even though I changed this.

#34

Are you using “pcall()” correctly ?
it should look something like this

local success, err = pcall(function()
   -- Your stuff here
end)

if not success then
   print(err)
end
#35

yeah, I alr did this and there’s was no errormessage

#36

could i see your updated version of the script ?
with the pcall’s and stuff added ?

also try using <= if it gets past then you can do some math operations to make it just like this <

#37 
local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local Data = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("MonthlyReignLeaderboard V:"..script.Parent.Version.Value)
		local Stats = game.ServerStorage.PlayerData:WaitForChild(v.Name).CurrentReign.Value
		RetrievedData = Data:GetAsync(v.UserId)
		print(RetrievedData)
			if Stats then
			print(Stats)
				pcall(function()
					if Stats >= RetrievedData then
					DataStore:UpdateAsync(v.UserId, function(Value)
						return tonumber(Stats)
					end)
				end
			end)
		end
	end

I have this in a loop

#38

Oh you are putting the new “pcall()” in the wrong place replace second one with the first then remove the first
then there might be errors in the output

#39

Workspace.MonthlyReignLeaderboard.MonthlyReignLeaderboardScript:67: attempt to compare nil and number

#40

it is saying the data is nil when it should be 7