whats the best way to get a specific player in a server script?

[true tiger]

i have a katana which when i unequip its supposed to get the player and character but sometimes i get an error when getting the player because it thinks the katana is in Workspace and not the player

Katana.Unequipped:Connect(function()
    equipped = false
    
    local myplayer = Katana.Parent.Parent
    print(myplayer)
    local mycharacter = myplayer.Character or myplayer.CharacterAdded:Wait()
end

usually it prints the player name, as it should and it works but when i lag or when i spam equip/unequip, it gives me an error because it thinks the katana is in Workspace. so whats the best way to get the player?

[stark pollen]

well, youre just printing the entire player

which provides an error

do myplayer.Name

and see

[true tiger]

thats not the problem

it does print what its supposed to print

read it again

[stark pollen]

what does it even print

[true tiger]

the players name

but when it errors it prints Workspace

[stark pollen]

wait im so lost

how does it print the players name

but you can do .Character

???

show the entire script

[true tiger]

the Katana is a tool

when unequipping it goes into the players backpack

making Katana.Parent the backpack

Katana.Parent.Parent is the player

[true tiger]

meaning you can do Character

[stark pollen]

how does it even PRINT the players name without .Name

[true tiger]

because its the player

not the model

actually u dont even need .Name when it comes to player

player.Name will work too but you dont need it

as long as its one player

actually idk about that

i just know it works without .Name

[true tiger]

would the best way to get the player be doing game.Players.PlayerAdded or using a local script?

when it comes to getting the player who equipped and unequipped the tool, what script do you use and if you use a server script, how do you do it?

[honest bough]

The print function in Lua automatically calls tostring() on all of its arguments and Roblox attaches the __tostring metamethod to all of their objects like players or parts which they use to return the Name property if the objects are run through that function