If statement not functioning right?

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#1

I have an event that is fired upon the player clicking a button. The event fires and the server gets information on what to do, but for some reason this if statement doesn’t run. I even ran a print function to see what the value was and it printed “Elevator AZ”, and the if statement requires it to be “Elevator AZ”, which it is, but the if statement doesn’t run and nothing from it prints… No errors. No misspelling.

print(interactionType)
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     elseif interactionType == "Elevator AZ" then

> Output: Elevator AZ
#2

Please show us the entire code(s), so we could see the entire context.

#3

if interactionType is not a string your statement wont work, using print auto tostrings anything supplied.

Try using tostring on your if statement

#4

M’kay, but it will still be very short due to how long the script is. (700+ lines for the event)

game.ReplicatedStorage.ClientRemotes.Interact.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, interactedWith, interactionType)
    print(interactionType) -- "prints Elevator AZ"
if interactionType == "Door" then
        elseif tostring(interactionType) == "Elevator AZ" then
            print("o") -- not printed, but interactionType is equal to Elevator AZ, meaning the if statement thinks that interactionType is not equal to Elevator AZ even though the print above shows in the output that interactionType is equal to Elevator AZ??
end
end)
-- rest of the code wont be shown due to how long it is
#5

This ended up not fixing anything, but I appreciate you trying to help.

#6

what is the server side sending over? (What are the exact arguments)

#7

The server isn’t sending anything to the client, its the client sending something to the server.

#8

Ohh, yeah. :sweat_smile:

well, what are those two variables being sent over?

I just did a very simple test, and fired the event with a random workspace part for the interactedWith, and a string “Elevator AZ” and it worked like normal.

#9

Is there by any chance another “if” or “elseif” that the code might be going to before it reaches the “Elevator AZ” one? You could put random print statements in the conditional to see where the code is being routed.

#10

player is quite obvious.
interactedWith is just the parent of the “InteractionPart”, but just don’t mind that.
interactionType is the type of interaction, like “Door”, “Button”, or “Elevator AZ” which is an elevator for a specific area.

#11

Yea it looked like this was the case somehow… Got it fixed lol.

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