What is the issue? So I’m scripting admin commands and I want to make it more organized by making module scripts for each command and then firing their functions whenever a game moderator types a command in the chat but for some reason the message string returns nil when I send it over to the modu…

Try changing the function header to function Kill.Main(msg) I think what’s happening is self (a reference to the Kill table basically) is getting implicitly passed as the first parameter to the function (which is msg) so instead of holding the message that was sent, it holds the table object (Kill…

Message string from .Chatted returns nil when sent to module script

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C_Sharper (Sharpie) December 23, 2022, 8:36pm 6

Glad I could help.

If you’re interested in learning more about what self does, you can reference this article here, which gives some pretty good documentation on object-oriented programming in Lua:

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