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How am I using require wrong for this module?

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I'm currently trying to learn how to use modules. I think I could figure it out if I knew how to do the simple first.

I have a regular script in ServerScriptService and a module script in Workspace named test. There's nothing else in the workspace named that, I checked.

Here's the Server Sided Script, 

local module = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Test")
local output = require(module)

output(5)

Here's the module,

local function output(num)
	print(num * num)
end

return output()

Line two of the first script give me an error,

02:31:13.293 - Requested module experienced an error while loading
02:31:13.293 - Script 'ServerScriptService.ModuleReturnTest', Line 2

I'm not sure what that means though :/

Any help is appreciated

Thank you.

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You are returning the return value of a call to your output function instead of returning your output function itself. Since your function doesn't actually return anything, it resolves to nil.

In your other script, you capture this nil value and assign it to "output". The whole purpose of require()ing a module is to capture and keep the return value, hence the error.

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