Not sure what to do in my script

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#1

So here’s the deal. I have a tattoo parlor and with a wall of tattoos that are numbered and I have 2 tattoo chairs. You need to sit in one of the chairs and say the tattoo you want and to part you want it to apply the decal on. I would say something like “3 left arm”. I have two scripts to handle this and it almost works but I’m not sure what is causing this hickup. It works if I don’t use spaces in the word, if I say “3 leftleg” it works but if I say “3 left leg” it won’t apply the decal. IF anyone can explain what’s wrong I would appreciate it. Here are the scripts. The first one is a local script in starterplayerscripts. and the second is a script in the serverscriptservice.
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local playerGui = player:WaitForChild(“PlayerGui”)

local function onPlayerChat(message)
– Split the message into parts: the first part is the tattoo number, the rest is the body part
local parts = message:split(" ", 2) – Only split at the first space

-- Ensure there are at least two parts (tattoo number and body part)
if #parts < 2 then return end

-- Get the tattoo number (first part)
local tattooNumber = tonumber(parts[1])
-- Get the body part (second part, which includes spaces if any)
local bodyPart = parts[2]

-- Print for debugging
print("Chat Message:", message)
print("Tattoo Number:", tattooNumber)
print("Body Part before normalization:", bodyPart)

-- Check if tattooNumber and bodyPart are valid
if tattooNumber and bodyPart then
	-- Normalize the body part: remove spaces and convert to lowercase
	local normalizedBodyPart = bodyPart:lower():gsub("%s+", "")  -- Remove spaces and convert to lowercase

	-- Print for debugging
	print("Body Part after normalization:", normalizedBodyPart)

	-- Call a remote event to apply the tattoo
	game.ReplicatedStorage.TattooRemote:FireServer(tattooNumber, normalizedBodyPart)
end

end

– Listen for the player’s chat messages
player.Chatted:Connect(onPlayerChat)

Here is the second script.

local remote = Instance.new(“RemoteEvent”)
remote.Name = “TattooRemote”
remote.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage

local tattooDecals = {
[1] = “6343535380”, – ID’s for the decals
[2] = “4920916286”,
[3] = “4908045547”,
[4] = “4920916582”,
[5] = “51298728”,
[6] = “8361012618”,
[7] = “383151290”,
[8] = “63548458”,
[9] = “37248143”,
[10] = “101758633”,
[11] = “94201575”,
[12] = “1451752964”,

}

local function isPlayerInTattooSeat(player)
local character = player.Character
if not character then return false end

local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if not humanoid then return false end

local seated = humanoid.SeatPart
return seated and (seated.Name == "tatseat1" or seated.Name == "tatseat2")

end

local function applyTattoo(player, tattooNumber, bodyPart)
if not isPlayerInTattooSeat(player) then
player:SendNotification({
Title = “Error”,
Text = “You must be seated in a tattoo chair to get a tattoo.”,
Duration = 5,
})
return
end

local character = player.Character
if not character then return end

local tattooID = tattooDecals[tattooNumber]
if tattooID then
	local part
	local humanoid = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")

	-- Print for debugging
	print("Body part received by server:", bodyPart)

	-- Normalize the body part (remove spaces and lowercase everything)
	local normalizedBodyPart = bodyPart:lower():gsub("%s+", "")

	-- Print for debugging
	print("Normalized Body Part on Server:", normalizedBodyPart)

	-- Check if the avatar is R6 or R15
	if humanoid.RigType == Enum.HumanoidRigType.R6 then
		if normalizedBodyPart == "face" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Head")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "chest" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Torso")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "leftarm" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Left Arm")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "rightarm" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Right Arm")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "leftleg" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Left Leg")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "rightleg" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Right Leg")
		end
	elseif humanoid.RigType == Enum.HumanoidRigType.R15 then
		if normalizedBodyPart == "face" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Head")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "chest" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Upper Torso")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "leftarm" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("LeftLowerArm")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "rightarm" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("RightLowerArm")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "leftleg" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("LeftLowerLeg")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "rightleg" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("RightLowerLeg")
		elseif normalizedBodyPart == "neck" then
			part = character:FindFirstChild("Neck") -- Optional for R15
		end
	end

	-- Debugging: Print if part is found or not
	if part then
		print("Found part:", part.Name)
		local decal = Instance.new("Decal")
		decal.Texture = "rbxassetid://" .. tattooID
		decal.Parent = part
		-- Set properties for the decal here
		decal.Face = Enum.NormalId.Front
		decal.Transparency = 0

		-- Play the tattoo gun sound
		local seatPart = player.Character.Humanoid.SeatPart
		if seatPart and seatPart:FindFirstChild("Sound") then
			local sound = seatPart.Sound
			sound:Play() 
			print("Sound played.")
		end
	else
		-- Debugging: Print if part could not be found
		print("Could not find part for body part:", bodyPart)
	end
end

end

– Listen for remote events
remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, tattooNumber, bodyPart)
– Ensure bodyPart and tattooNumber are received correctly
if type(tattooNumber) == “number” and type(bodyPart) == “string” then
– Debugging: Print tattoo number and body part received
print(“Tattoo Number:”, tattooNumber)
print(“Received Body Part:”, bodyPart)

	-- Normalize body part (remove spaces and lowercase it)
	local normalizedBodyPart = bodyPart:lower():gsub("%s+", "")
	applyTattoo(player, tattooNumber, normalizedBodyPart)
end

end)

#2

The code being seperated out of code blocks makes it really hard to read. I’d say try printing normalizedBodyPart. Thats the most likely thing to be wrong.
print(normalizedBodyPart)