How to make replacing instances with different names?

[fluid warren]

I have a couple folders, and only one can be part of the player at a time. I have a function for this in leaderstats, and I can give them the new file, but I can't figure out how to get rid of the old one. Can someone help?

[round gorge]

your specChange function is destroying everything inside the player including some that are probably irrelevant (like backpack)

you are checking if the value's name isn't named Spec

i think you meant to do == rather than ~= ?

@fluid warren

[fluid warren]

mb i got busy with something

[fluid warren]

I noticed it was destroying the string value too so I set that, ig I didn't notice everything else because it automatically replicates in the game

that's the main problem I'm getting, I need to be able to find the old file who's name matches what the string value used to be before it changed

just changed it

hold up I was searching in the player instead of the character i'm so dumb

thanks for the help man

[round gorge]

oh

good to know you got around your issue

[fluid warren]

thanks i have problems like this all the time

[round gorge]

i came here becuase i had a problem and im just helping random people now lol

[fluid warren]

lmao

wait actually new problem

I set oldSpec outside of the function so it only sets once, if I change it again it'll only search for the original definition

[round gorge]

wait what are you exactly trying to achieve

i dont really understand

[fluid warren]

ok so I want to make a kinda replacement system, a player can only have one "spec" at a time, and if they get a new one, it replaces whatever spec they had before

[round gorge]

is that "spec" a tool inside the character?

[fluid warren]

nah its a file

[round gorge]

hmm okay

[fluid warren]

I need to define the spec they had beforehand and destroy it, but idk how to define it and replace the definition if it's already set

[round gorge]

is there anything in common that all these specs have

[fluid warren]

closest thing I can think of is that they all have a script with the same name in them

[round gorge]

okay, that works

[fluid warren]

lemme try that rq

ok weird problem, it searches everything but stops when something doesnt meet the definition

[round gorge]

hold on you gotta find the folder with that script inside it and destroy that folder then put the new folder

[round gorge]

you used return rather than continue?

[round gorge]

hold on

what is that script named?

that all specs have

[fluid warren]

InputScript

[round gorge]

hmm i think you could use a findfirstchild that would check if any of the character's children have a script called InputScript, but i forgot what it was called

:FindFirstAncestor() i think

try Char:FindFirstAncestor("InputScript")

[fluid warren]

oh smart actually

saves me a nest?

[round gorge]

i mean i dont know the behind of that method

so it could be doing the same thing lol

[fluid warren]

something like this?

[round gorge]

oh no i think ancestor is something else

[fluid warren]

it can't index the input script

[round gorge]

hold on ill research

[fluid warren]

oh descendent

[round gorge]

ancestor is a diffrent thing yeah

it starts from the script and goes up

[fluid warren]

i have to enable it??

this is weird

[round gorge]

i mixed it up wait

[fluid warren]

yeah we confused descendant with ancestor i think

[round gorge]

yeah

[fluid warren]

it says i have to enable the function though

[round gorge]

would it cause any issue if you were to rename the folder to "Spec"

all spec folders

[fluid warren]

yeah there's some things ServerSide I want to only work with that specific folder

[round gorge]

or make it have its last 4 letters be Spec

could that work?

[fluid warren]

ig that would work yeah

[round gorge]

okay one second

local function getSpecFolder(character)
    for _, child in character:GetChildren() do
        if child:IsA("Folder") and string.sub(child.Name, -4) == "Spec" then
            return child
        end
    end
    return nil -- if no spec folder
end

then you can do
local SpecFolder = getSpecFolder()
if SpecFolder then SpecFolder:Destroy() end

@fluid warren

[fluid warren]

ok hold up so it searches the character for a folder and then checks if it ends in "Spec", if it finds it, it returns the function

[round gorge]

yes

[fluid warren]

wow nice

[round gorge]

it returns the child

[fluid warren]

that seems a lot safer than what i came up with actually

[round gorge]

just make sure there is nothing else that ends with spec

Spec, first letter is capitilized

[fluid warren]

alr lemme try that

okay that just triggered some horrible butterfly effect

[round gorge]

what happened?

[fluid warren]

it deleted everything in my player's other folders

which is weird because it's only effecting the character

[round gorge]

huh

[fluid warren]

idk man i undid all of it too and it's still doing it

ok mb I forgot to redefine some variables

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[fluid warren]

it works fine now, thanks man 💯