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Remote event is receiving the client instead of string?

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I'm not sure what's happening, anyone know why?

This is the local script:

script.Parent.RemoteEvent:FireServer("TestString")

Server side script:

script.Parent.RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(String) print(tostring(String)) end)

Instead of returning the string it instead returns the client's player?

Output reads: "wwwaylon09"

The local script, server side script, and remote event are all parented to a tool. Possibly a replication error?

Edit: I moved the remote event to replicated storage and the server side script to the workspace yet it still receives the client instead of the string.

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For any client to server communication through remotes, the first tuple passed is ALWAYS the player that triggered the remote.

The solution is to make the first tuple received either a dummy variable - put an underscore in its place - or initialise it as player:

-- local script
remoteEvent:FireServer(string)

-- server script
remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(_, string) -- you could very well replace '_' with 'player'
	print(string)
end)
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I didn't realize there were 2 tuples involved with the connected function, thank you!

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