Lua assign mission question

[Gunner98]

Hay guys, I've done this a dozen times or more but getting a strange result here - so it's probably fat finger problems as usual.

Testing a lua command to assign units to a mission - it works - sort of. Looking to assign all 8 Helix to a mission but only the last 5 get assigned. See the clip.

Tried several times with minor changes to syntax but result is the same.

Any thoughts?

[michaelm75au]

Can you add a save?
All I can think of is that the names aren't correct. That is there is some character in the name of those first 3 you can't see.

[KnightHawk75]

That would be my guess as well maybe trailing space in the first 3 units, or there are other units on side WP with the exact same names that are getting assigned instead?

To test\find either case, esp the later:

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local u;
 for i=1,8 do;
   u = ScenEdit_GetUnit({Side="WP",Name="38th OShAP #" ..i});
   if u ~=nil then
     ScenEdit_AssignUnitToMission(u.guid,"SAG ASW");
     print('assigned unit named: ' .. u.name .. ' guid: ' ... u.guid);
   else
     print('Failed to find and assign unit: ' .. '38th OShAP #' .. tostring(i));
   end
   u = nil;
 end
 

[Gunner98]

OK that was the problem - duplicate names! Thanks for the quick response and that was a quick fix.

Appreciate the help.