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Why does studio think that the script should end on line 3? (about Players and Characters , I think)

Asked Oct 11, 2018175 views2 answers

Good Evening (or morning :P), i hope you all have had a great day so far, now it's time to make it worse as you have to answer my amateur scripting question!

So in the script below it is apparently supposed to ServerScriptService.Script:7: ')' expected (to close '(' at line 3) near '<eof>' - I have to clue what that means, can someone please walk me through this -

yours goku :D

local player = game:GetService("Players")


player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(person)
	person:CharacterAdded(function(person)
		print(person.Parent)
	end)
end)

AnonymousOct 11, 2018

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

Not correctly connecting it to the function.

--proper variable naming. 
local players = game:GetService("Players")

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(person)
    person.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
        print(person.Parent)
    end)
end)

AnonymousOct 11, 2018Edited Oct 11, 2018Permalink

3 comments

You can repeat variable names so long as you know which scope they belong to

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

Again mate dont mid-judge my comment, not defending it or saying that naming the variables the same is better, just saying that you can do it

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

mis-judge*, lol

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

CharacterAdded is an event not a function you need to use . not : , and connect the function to the event, also not sure about the error you are getting, everything is fine other than your CharacterAdded event

local player = game:GetService("Players")


player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(person)
    person.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(person)
        print(person.Parent)
    end)
end)

AnonymousOct 11, 2018Edited Oct 11, 2018Permalink

8 comments

oh welp - that was simple - i'm dumb XD - Thanks for the answer though!

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

Not everything is fine. ree.

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

???

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

aw looks like my answer wasnt accepted even though i posted it first .-.

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

This one isn't correct. I'll upvote after you fix it.

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

What??? you talking about the repeated person variable? they are different objects mate, go test it in studio yourself by printing out the parent of each person variable, they are contained within their own scope

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

The variable in the CharacterAdded scope will be a child of workspace while the variable in the PlayerAdded scope will be a child of players, its all working as intended in studio

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

It won't work when you need to access something from the player AND character. Terrible scripting advice that I see no reason why you're defending.

AnonymousOct 11, 2018#

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