Math.random(#table) Printing Number Instead of a String

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Code:

local textx = {"Shift to run", "Taxis are the most advanced","Normal cars are slow","Police car and taxi are the faster cars, but bigger cars have more health","Camping at the border is a smart move, but it may be overrun","The citizens are crazy and thats why they go out of there way to kill you"}

script.Parent.Text = math.random(#textx)


-- BEFORE YOURS SAY ANYTHING, The method I used to pick a random string works. It's just the fact that it's printing a number instead of a string

My problem is in the title

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math.random function returns a number, you need to use that number as an indexer on the table to get a random string value from the table:

script.Parent.Text = textx[math.random(#textx)]
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my thoughts exactly. looks like “the method you used to pick a random string” doesn’t actually work.

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That worked. That is weird considering the fact that I used math.random(#table) method to get strings before

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Yea sorry i’m not that experienced with stuff like this

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eh, no worries.

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