Issues with time converting

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#7

I am aware but I can’t seem to find out why. I think it is my time converting

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#8

Print both values, determine which is nil and which isn’t.

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#9

BanTime appears to be the one to error any ideas?

#10 
playerProfile.Data.BanTime = convertTime(time)

Something going wrong here then, check the function over.

#11

Errors messages for operations in Luau are non-commutative so it’s easy to find out which data type is which. The first operand is a “number” and the second operand is “nil”.

To OP: What is the value of the variable time in convertTime(time)? It looks like the convertTime function returns nil.

#12

Also avoid using time as a variable, it’s getting flagged as reserved.

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#13

The time variable is the input text the user puts example: “1d” which my convertTime function is suppose to change to seconds

#14

You to need to wrap it inside a call to “tonumber()” so that its type is correctly changed before performing any arithmetic operations on it.

#15

Where? In the convert function I need it to be a string

#16

What type of format does the value “time” typically use? Would help out a lot.

#17

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print(time)
print(asda)

I know you’re overriding time but you should still avoid using time. And let me know what format “time” is in when its being passed to the function.

#18

So it takes like “1d” and will split the string looking for the number, if it is d then it does the amount of seconds in a day (86400) times the number provided, then returns it in seconds

#19

Yeah, try a print on seconds before it’s returned.

#20 
function convertTime(time)
	local day = 86400
	local hour = 3600
	local minute = 60
	local seconds = 1
	local lengthNumber = tonumber(string.match(time, "%d+"))

	local time = string.lower(time)
	if string.find(time, "s") then
		seconds = lengthNumber * 1
	elseif string.find(time, "m") then
		seconds = lengthNumber * minute
	elseif string.find(time, "h") then
		seconds = lengthNumber * hour
	elseif string.find(time, "d") then
		seconds = lengthNumber * day
	end

	print("Convert time")
	return seconds
end

print(convertTime("25d"))

The function is working for me actually.

#21

I see why it’s because “seconds” was out of scope when you attempted to return it, I’ve fixed that by adding “local seconds = 1” so that when the return statement is executed “seconds” is in scope.

#22

Now it works, but if I do “1d” is only bans says 1 second.

#23

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Must be some other issue on your end.

#24

And that was using my function and it worked? Strange…

#25

I copied the exact thing from what you put and still will not work just shows 1

#26

I’m assuming the data you’re passing to the function is incorrect, look at the way in which I called the function.

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