A problem with a nil value and how to filter it

[Crooks_]

So I am currently working on polishing up a hud that I just finished. Now the only problem I can't manage to fix, is the fact that whenever a player dies, the ply:GetActiveWeapon() prints out a nil value due to the fact that the player is dead, so there is no active weapon, which results in an error.
I have been trying to counter this with an " ply:Alive() " or currently

if ( ply:GetActiveWeapon() == nil ) == false then

but nothing seems to really work. Or maybe I am just doing it wrong? Well I don't know and i've been looking for a solution for quite a bit of time now.

I am looking for a method to filter out a nil value while say the player is dead, or overall if the value of something is nil, then it simply won't try to run itself.

[c👌de_g🎷]

GetActiveWeapon doesn't return nil when the player is dead, it returns NULL. You can check this with:

if (ply:GetActiveWeapon():IsValid()) then

Also, you should localise GetActiveWeapon's return if you are going to be using it more than once.

[Crooks_]

[QUOTE=code_gs;52172155]GetActiveWeapon doesn't return nil when the player is dead, it returns NULL. You can check this with:

if (ply:GetActiveWeapon():IsValid()) then

Also, you should localise GetActiveWeapon's return if you are going to be using it more than once.[/QUOTE]

Thank you very much, I was actually trying to use IsValid at one point, but clearly I wasn't doing it properly.

Also I am localising it, just after the validity check.:downs:

[c👌de_g🎷]

Localise it before so you don't have to call it twice.