# llGetStartString

*LSL function*

```lsl
string string llGetStartString();
```

- Returns: `string`
- Energy: 10

- If the containing object was manually rezzed, by dragging from inventory, the start string is blank.
- This function reads the start string of the object's root prim.
- Child prims of objects rezzed via `llRezObjectWithParams()` have an empty start string. Returns the initialization string passed to the object's root prim on rez with llRezObjectWithParams (via REZ_PARAM_STRING; returns an empty string if rezzed by an agent).

Returns a [string](https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/string) that was passed to the object's root prim on rez with [llRezObjectWithParams](/functions/llRezObjectWithParams/).

```lsl title="How to use" frame="terminal"
string result = llGetStartString();
```

## Caveats

- Start string survives script resets, region crosses and region restarts.

## Examples

<details open>
<summary>Example 1</summary>

```lsl
default
{
    on_rez(integer param)
    {
        llOwnerSay("rezzed with the number " + (string)param + " and a start string of \"" + llGetStartString() + "\"");
    }
    state_entry()
    {
        string s = llGetStartString();
        llOwnerSay("I was given the string \"" + s + "\" when I was rezzed");
    }
}
```

</details>

## See also

### Functions

- [llRezObjectWithParams](/functions/llRezObjectWithParams/)
- [llGetStartParameter](/functions/llGetStartParameter/)

### Events

- [on_rez](/events/on_rez/)

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*Source: [LlGetStartString](https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlGetStartString) on the Second Life Wiki. Content from the Second Life Wiki article LlGetStartString (revision 1217696, 2024-11-29), CC BY-SA 3.0.*

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From lsl.dev: https://lsl.dev/functions/llGetStartString/