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PlayerAdded event doesn't work?

Asked Sep 15, 2018335 views2 answers

Hello,

I try to use this script. It has to print when someone joins/leaves the game, however I keep recieving this error. Can someone help me?

The script:


local Players = game:GetService("Players")
 
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	print(player.Name + " joined the game!")
end)
 
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	print(player.Name + " left the game!")
end)

Error: 17:58:17.367 - Workspace.PlayerAddedEvents:4: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'Name' (a string value)

AnonymousSep 15, 2018

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

The issue is that on line 4 and 8 you are using "+" to connect two strings together and that's not how strings work. What you are looking for is "..", which is called concatenate, and that connects two strings together. for example print ("hello " .. "ok") would print out " hello ok".

Fixed Code

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
print(player.Name .. " joined the game!")
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
print(player.Name .. " left the game!")
end)

AnonymousSep 15, 2018Permalink

2 comments

OP's script was stolen from Wiki.

AnonymousSep 15, 2018#

Thank you.

AnonymousSep 21, 2018#

it is supposed to be

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

not

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

AnonymousSep 15, 2018Permalink

1 comment

He has a variable for Players

AnonymousSep 15, 2018#

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