Is there a way to "Attribute" a string in a table?

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I mean, I can easily loop through the torso to find Motor6Ds and make a bunch of ifs and elseifs to find a specific body part,
but for example, when you have a huge table with a lot of strings in it, you wouldn’t probably type a lot of if statements?

I want to make it so that in the code, when the part is touched, it checks the body part of a character and removes its motor6D in a torso, the code is unfinished:

local motorsToRemove = {"Left Hip", "Right Hip", "Left Shoulder", "Right Shoulder", "Neck"}
-- for example, "Neck" == "Head", "Left Hip" == "Left Leg" and etc..

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
		for _, motor in pairs(hit.Parent.Torso:GetChildren()) do
			-- if there is a body part attributed to a motor, it checks the same body part if it has the motor, and then it is destroyed
		end
	end
end)

Is there any way I can do the looping easier?

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I don’t know what you are trying to do specifically due to your wording, but you can just use IsA() to check if it the part is a Motor6D.

local motorsToRemove = {"Left Hip", "Right Hip", "Left Shoulder", "Right Shoulder", "Neck"}
-- for example, "Neck" == "Head", "Left Hip" == "Left Leg" and etc..

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
		for _, motor in pairs(hit.Parent.Torso:GetChildren()) do
			if motor:IsA("Motor6D") then
                motor:Destroy()
            end
		end
	end
end)
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So basically, motor6Ds that connect all body parts, are stored in the character’s torso, and here’s what I am trying to do:
The script checks which body part the touched part just hit, and then, the motor that connects the touched body part to a torso, gets removed.
So that’s why I put like “Neck” == “Head”, It is to basically associate touched body parts to their motor, and the same associated motor gets removed
Still thanks for your reply and much appreciate it!

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You can link certain parts to a table in order to index them

local motorsToRemove = {
    [“Head”] = “Neck”
}

For example, it could look like this:

local motorsToRemove = {
    [“Head”] = “Neck”
} -- you can add the other body parts

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then

        local found = motorsToRemove[hit.Name]
        if not found then return end -- if there is no motor to remove there is no point in running the search

		for _, motor in pairs(hit.Parent.Torso:GetChildren()) do
	        if motor:IsA("Motor6D") then
                if motor.Name == found then
                     motor:Destroy()
                end
            end
		end
	end
end)
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