Help fixing an error. attempt to call a number value

[MelonShooter]

I'm getting an error.

[ERROR] addons/dlist/lua/autorun/init.lua:21 attempt to call a number value

This is a portion of my init.lua

[LUA]net.Receive ("physgundisablebutton", function()
local ply = net.ReadEntity()
local num = net.ReadFloat()*60*60
ply:SetNWFloat("physguninput", num)
ply:SetNWBool( "physgundisable", true )
hook.Add("PlayerDisconnected", "saveprogress", function()
if ply:GetNWBool("physgundisable") == true then
file.Append( "d5q7g68w2t74.txt", "local " .. ply:SteamID().. "table = {playersteamid = " .. ply:SteamID() .. ", currenttime = ".. ply:GetUTimeTotalTime() .. ", targettime = " .. ply:GetUTimeTotalTime() + ply:GetNWFloat("physguninput")"} " )
ply:SetNWBool("physgundisable", false)
end
end)
hook.Add("ShutDown", "saveprogress", function()
if ply:GetNWBool("physgundisable") == true and ply:IsValid() then
file.Append( "d5q7g68w2t74.txt", "local " .. ply:SteamID().. "table = {playersteamid = " .. ply:SteamID() .. ", currenttime = ".. ply:GetUTimeTotalTime() .. ", targettime = " .. ly:GetUTimeTotalTime() + ply:GetNWFloat("physguninput")"} " )
ply:SetNWBool("physgundisable", false)
end
end)
end)[/LUA]

[danker pepers]

Which line is line 21

[MelonShooter]

Its the first file.append line, but there will be the same problem with the other file.append line too

[danker pepers]

Try converting the text you are appending to a string by putting it inside tostring()

[c👌de_g🎷]

You shouldn't store files like Lua. Making a SteamID a variable is a weird format: just store the data in either JSON or plain, sequenced numbers.

[MelonShooter]

Tried your way peppers and it didn't work just said the same thing but attempt to call a string.

[PortalGod]

problem is [lua]ply:GetNWFloat("physguninput")"} "[/lua]

you forgot .. so it's trying to pass "} " as an argument and call it as a function

also, advice, follow what code_gs said and look into string.format

[MelonShooter]

Thank you that worked. But I have another question. How would I go about doing code_gs's way?

[rtm516]

[img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/TableToJSON]util.TableToJSON[/url] for save to file and [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img] [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/JSONToTable]util.JSONToTable[/url] for reading