Help with pet storage system

[analog turtle]

I'm making a pet storage system that uses numbers to distinguish between pets of the same name. It checks the pet name using the while function in the lua block then adds the pet name to a string instance used to store the player's inventory. The problem is that it works well until there are 3 pets of the same name. Then all new pets are given the name "Pet2"

         if plrpets:FindFirstChild(petresult) then
            print("Replica Found")
            while plrpets:FindFirstChild(petresult) do
                print(int)
                int +=1
                petresult = petresult..tostring(int)
            end
            petinstance.Name = petinstance.Name..tostring(int)
            int = 0
            petinstance.Parent = plrpets
        else
            petinstance.Parent = plrpets
        end

[onyx basin]

while plrpets:FindFirstChild(petresult) do
                print(int)
                int +=1
                petresult = petresult..tostring(int)
            end```
lol
output: petresult = petresult..tostring(1) = "x1"
output: petresult = petresult..tostring(2) = "x12"
output: petresult = petresult..tostring(3) = "x123"
output: petresult = petresult..tostring(4) = "x1234"

[analog turtle]

yh somehow it works if I use petinstance.Name = petresult

but ofc broken bec of the 1234

[onyx basin]

coz you keep appending the next number

and then you throw it out lol petinstance.Name = petinstance.Name..tostring(int)

[analog turtle]

but I would only need the last number of the sequence no?

so the very last updated value of int will be the last number of the sequence

[onyx basin]

did you write this code yourself?

[analog turtle]

yes

[onyx basin]

or did you get it from ai?

[analog turtle]

nope i wrote it

[onyx basin]

can you tell me what this is for? lua while plrpets:FindFirstChild(petresult) do print(int) int +=1 petresult = petresult..tostring(int) end

[analog turtle]

well let's say there's a pet named dog

plrpets is a form of storage I use for the player's inventory. It's a folder containing a list of strings. Each string is the name of a pet

so in the while loop it checks if there's a pet called dog. if there's a pet called dog it changes the name to dog1 then checks that name again

then it repeats for dog1 ,dog2, dog 3 and so on

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[onyx basin]

you are mistaken, it is not checking dog1, dog2, dog3 etc. it is checking dog1, dog12, dog123, etc.

[analog turtle]

oh i see

that's the fix thanks

[onyx basin]

yes you see now that you're using 2 different naming schemes for this which breaks very fast

unintentionally, no doubt

[analog turtle]

yh i see it now. I think it's better to remove the number with each loop or change the way it finds the pet name. Thanks for your help

[onyx basin]

it would be running_name=original_name..int instead of running_name=running_name..int

remember, the only difference between broken and working as intended is, by definition, your intention. that's where you need prints and such. don't assume your code is working properly, in fact you should assume the opposite by default. and when you do print, print everything

breakpoints are even better