Passing nameless arguments

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I’m trying to pass an event to the client that will run a function on the client with the argument func that refers to the name of the function I wanna call and ... being optional arguments.

Server:

remotes.InvokeClient:FireAllClients("PrintMsg", "Hi! I'm working")

Client:

remotes.InvokeClient.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(func, ...)
	MainHandler[func](...) -- the function is being called but 'nil' is received as an arg
end)

Any ideas why this may not work? Tried searching for a while but I couldn’t find anything that could help me. Thanks.

2

What is MainHandler? If it’s not a table, it won’t work.

3

It’s a module

For reference:

function MainHandler:PrintMsg(msg)
	print(msg)
end
4

Just to be clear, is it erroring? If it is, what is the error?

5

There’s no error

When debugging and printing the argument msg, it just spits out nil

6

Oh, this is because of how the colon works.
Basically:

function foo.Bar(object, s)

end
function foo:Bar(s) -- object is automatically being passed in when called with the : 

end

So basically, when you call the function like that in the main script, it acts like the dot function, resulting in msg being nil. So replace the colon with a dot.

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7

Life saver, thanks. Just had a little bit of confusion.