How do I send a custom Tellraw message based on the player in a certain location in Minecraft

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For a Minecraft map I'm making, I want public messages to be sent when a player steps on a certain pressure plate or walks through a specific door, and for the message to say who exactly did it. Also, I want it to be able to handle multiple players in the same spot and does its job respectively.
For example, if a person walks into a door, it says,

"their username has walked through the door."

I'm currently using
/tellraw @a {"text":"","color":"yellow","extra":[{"selector":"@p[distance=3]"},{"text":" has walked through the door."}]}

but it doesn't seem to work, and rather responds with,

" has walked through the door."

Any thoughts?

ahmettrPro · Answer

Minecraft uses dots to specify bigger than and smaller than when using tags such as distance=n.

2 dots in front (distance=..n) stands for smaller than n.
2 dots at the end (distance=n..) stands for bigger than n.

Additionally, both terms can be used in one tag (e.g.: distance=y..n stands for bigger than y and smaller than n.).
To answer your question, change distance=3 to distance=..3, problem solved.

How do I send a custom Tellraw message based on the player in a certain location in Minecraft

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