Hello, I would like to know if someone could provide me with a hand, I need to know how to use tostring what it does and in which use cases to use it, any ideas?
I would appreciate it very much
number = 5
new_number = tostring(number)
print("the number is: "..number)
print("The new number is: "..new_number)
number_to_number = tonumber(new_number)
print("To number is: "..tostring(number_to_number))
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tostring
basically justs converts something into a string,
print(type(1)) --number
print(type(tostring(1))) -- string
In your example you’ve provided, it should do as you want, name the instance to 5
and then later set the number variable to be the name of the Instance as a number. Keep in mind is that if the instance’s name is not a full number, such as if there’s a letter in it, it will set nil
into number
You really only need to use tostring
if you need to ensure a given value is a string
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Is it possible to do this also with a table? 
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i dont think so
–trythoughorelseyouwontfindout
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If you tostring
a table, it’ll return the memory address the table is located at

Which is probably not what you want
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Thank you guys so much! helped me a lot with my learning! 
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