Table.concat() suddendly doesn't work

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So ~6 hours ago, before the update, table.concat() worked fine but now it errors because the table contains instances.

Here’s the problematic line:

print(string.format("%s has %s as dependencies", tostring(currentButton.Name), table.concat(currentButton.DependOn:GetChildren(), ", ")))

And here’s the error:

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(it says that it’s on line 75 and also 64 but that’s because I use a coroutine)

I tried searching a function to convert every value in a table to a string but without success.

Any help is appreciated!

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thats because the contents of the :GetChildren() is a bunch of Instance’s

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Yes I know, said it in the original post, but it used to work a few hours back.
My question is that is there any way to transform all the instances into strings, even with :GetChildren?

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a lazy solution is that you could do a for loop and insert the name of each instance to a table

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Thank you, I’m going to try it. But are there any other more efficient solutions, especially just for a print() statement?

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you can concatenate the name onto a string variable instead:

local joined = ''
for _, v in instances do
   joined ..= v.Name
end
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oh for that you can use table.foreach(print) (would just print it individually instead of one string if that whats you want)

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isnt foreach deprecated though?

(to add to the conversation: what i’d do is something like:

print((function() local s = "" for i, v in pairs(currentButton.DependOn:GetChildren()) do s = s..v..", " end return s)())
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i dont think so, its still visible on the table documentation with show deprecateds off

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But it doesn’t work anymore, it just returns nil now.
(And Studio underlines it in yellow and says that it is deprecated)

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based on this post im pretty sure it is deprecated

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oh, that’s weird, sorry for the confusion

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which one doesn’t work?

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table.foreach() doesn’t work, if that’s what you were asking for

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