Need help on a LUA math error

[LuaCoold (lua)]

Hey! I’m currently making a hardcap system for a game of mine and need assistance.
What’s happening is that the math is only rendering increments of a specific number as higher than the number, even though originally all of the numbers are suppose to be higher.

This is the module script:

local ButtonHardcaps = {
	["LevelButton"] = {
		["100"] = 20,
		--["5"] = 25,
	}
}

function ButtonHardcaps.GetHardcap(Button)
	local ButtonFromList = ButtonHardcaps[Button.Name]
	
	for i,v in ButtonFromList do
		local Number = (Button:FindFirstChild("Main"):FindFirstChild("Bottom"):FindFirstChild("Number").Text)
		
		if i >= Number then
			return i.." being >= "..Number.." is: "..tostring((i >= Number))
		else
			return i.." being >= "..Number.." is: "..tostring((i >= Number))
		end
	end
end

return ButtonHardcaps

It returns this:

I don’t really know what’s happening, any help / assistance would be great!

[incognitobot_rblx (Narrator)]

There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with your script. Maybe try changing Number to tonumber(Number)?

Also

@LuaCoold

if i >= Number then
			return i.." being >= "..Number.." is: "..tostring((i >= Number))
		else
			return i.." being >= "..Number.." is: "..tostring((i >= Number))
		end

Since both returns are identical, I don’t think you need the IF statement. just return return i.." being >= "..Number.." is: "..tostring((i >= Number)) will do

[tlr22 (FusionOak)]

The issue is Number “100” is actually a string. So when your comparing it “cats” >= 12 doesn’t make sense ( or in this case “100” >= 12). However a string in comparisons is considered a truthy value so I’d imagine it’s effectively turning it to 1 (identical to true*). (1 >= 12).

To fix it. Do as Golden suggested

if tonumber(i) <= tonumber(Number) then

[AmoraFolf (Amora)]

Try doing tonumber(i) instead. Converting Number into a string is probably causing the issue.

[tlr22 (FusionOak)]

Oh yeah. It would need to be done on both since they both appear to be strings.

[AmoraFolf (Amora)]

Yeah. And you probably wouldn’t get far trying to compare strings with math lol. That’s like comparing an English class with an Algebra class

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But, it works just fine converting i into a number.

[ProBaturay (Programmer)]

The main reason why it generally returns false is you forgot the alphabetical order while working with strings and relational operators.

The variables i and Number are both assigned a string, and are compared while their datatype is string. If you use a relational operator on strings, Lua will check the alphabetical order (not the numbers).

Hence, that’s why "100" >= "2" returns false (since the number two comes after one)

To prevent this happening, you gotta convert the variables to numbers using tonumber()

local indexToNum, numberToNum = tonumber(i), tonumber(Number)

return 'Relational operator ">=" used in: index >= text' .. indexToNum >= numberToNum

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