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pcall acting weirdly

Started by MudkipTheEpic, 11 March 2013 - 09:16 AM

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 10:16 AM

Somehow, pcall is acting weirdly. When I do pcall(print("test")), it prints test, but returns false and the error: attempt to call number. I am using this in the lua program.

Edit: Oh ya, pcall doesnt take arguments.

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 10:32 AM

You're using it wrong.

pcall(print, "test")

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Posted 11 March 2013 - 10:38 AM

MudkipTheEpic, on 11 March 2013 - 10:16 AM said:
Edit: Oh ya, pcall doesnt take arguments.

Yes it does!

print("test") returns the number of the lines printed (1, in this case). pcall cannot call 1, because it's a number, not a function.

Use Lyqyd's solution.