How to shorten a players name?
Hello,
I'm working on an admin system.
In certain commands, an admin can specify a command to work on a particular player.
For example ;kill <player>
I wanted to make it so that the admin wouldn't have to specify the entire player name they wanted to effect.
For example, for me, instead of having to do ;kill Tweakified, you could do ;kill Twea
How would this be achieved?
I thought of using :match to do this. However, running ;kill ified would also work.
Any advice/help you can give would be appriciated.
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3 answers
After doing some additional research, I found a solution to my problem:
From this
I was able to modify the code to check only the start of the string with using the ^
This is how I modified the code:
local function GetPlayerFromString(nameString)
local matches= {}
for _, player in ipairs (game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if string.lower(player.Name):match("^".. string.lower(nameString)) then
table.insert(matches, player)
end
end
if #matches== 1 then
return matches[1]
else
return nil
end
end
Hope this helps someone in the future, Tweakified
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I don't think that this type of thing is even possible. You need to put the Full Player's Username, as Lua it's Case Sensitive.
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I'm conveniently doing the same thing. Here's my method:
local Players = game:GetService'Players';
local function GetPlayerFromSubString(Name)
Name = Name:lower():reverse();
for _,a in pairs(Players:GetPlayers())do
local b = (a.Name):lower():reverse();
if string.find(b,Name,#b-#Name)then -- Note: #(string) is the same as string.len
return a;
end;
end;
end;
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