ChatPrint Wont use var but can use string?

[GoldenLeopard]

So I use

 owner:ChatPrint('You must hit a player! You hit ' .. target) 

and it gave me a error saying [QUOTE] bad argument #2 to '__concat' (string expected, got userdata)
1. __concat - [C]:-1 [/QUOTE]

Then I tried

 owner:ChatPrint('You must hit a player!') 

-- Without the var
and it works fine. Can someone help me?

[editline]16th July 2016[/editline]

Yes I did set target to something:

local target = trace.Entity
	if target:IsPlayer() then
		self:ULXAttack( target:Nick() )
	else
		owner:ChatPrint('You must hit a player! You hit ' .. target)
	end

[MysteryPancake]

Ok, well you can't join a string and an entity. How would that work?

You need to use target:Nick() since that's a string

[c👌de_g🎷]

Use tostring( target ). Nick only works for players.

[editline]15th July 2016[/editline]

Or target:GetClass(), however, you'll need to make sure target isn't NULL first.

[GoldenLeopard]

Ok now I have another problem, when I do hit the player it says [QUOTE]attempt to call local 'Targetname' (a string value)
[/QUOTE]

Here is where I use the code:

function SWEP:ULXAttack( Targetname )
	if self.AttackMode == "freeze" then
		RunConsoleCommand('ulx freeze ' ..'"' .. Targetname '"')
		ply:ChatPrint('You have frozen ' .. Targetname)
	end
end

[c👌de_g🎷]

RunConsoleCommand uses varargs, not a single string. So it should be RunConsoleCommand( "ulx", "freeze", Targetname )

[MysteryPancake]

:snip: nevermind

[GoldenLeopard]

Oh ok thx