:WaitForChild() cuts off the parameter?

[enpiesie]

sup nerds, so for some reason my waitforchild parameter gets cut off. what I mean by that:
when I do script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("DebugUI")
it prints this:

as you can see it only tries to search for the first letter for some reason

more info:

• this is a localscript
• the script works in the studio
• the issue persists when published in-game
• for testing purposes I needed 2 accounts, and this happens on both of them
• I rejoined multiple times
• feel free to ask for more info

any thoughts on why this may happen?
I tried to google a solution but this is so peculiar that I don’t even know how to explain it in a search term properly
I’ll report this to engine bugs if there isn’t a solution

[enpiesie]

oh, and one more thing

• the line of code doesn’t show up when searching for it using find all/replace all

[azqjanna]

Probably you are accidentally taking the first element of the string “DebugUI” somewhere like:

local debugString = "DebugUI"
WaitForChild(debugString[1]) --Searches for "D"

[enpiesie]

that’s not the case.
as posted above, the code is:

script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("DebugUI")

the full localscript:

local du = script.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("DebugUI")
local dh = du:WaitForChild("DebugFrame"):WaitForChild("DebugHandler")

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	du.Enabled = not du.Enabled
	dh.Enabled = not dh.Enabled
end)

[enpiesie]

I think I may have found the issue.

When I loaded up the project, it told me some changes didn’t save, and would you look at that. Apparently it saved as “D” and not “DebugUI”. Mystery solved.