Rednet:350: string expected (Need help)

i keep getting this error (Rednet:350: string expected) why?

term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1,1)


rednet.open("right")
m = peripheral.wrap("top")

while true do

event, item, amount = os.pullEvent()


rednet.broadcast(item)

print("Item: "..item)
print("Amount: "..amount)

m.sort(2)

end

any help would be appreciated =)

try

rednet.broadcast(tostring(item))

What event is it waiting for and what are the parameters?

The tostring(item) patch should avoid the error for a lot of common events, but it won't work for all of them, and you probably only want to pull a given type of event (with this code, I suspect a char event, which is always going to be preceded by a key event).

If you don't filter the event type, then the tostring(item) may keep this code from erroring, but the receivers will be getting spurious messages that may cause unexpected behavior.