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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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:
01 | local function GetPlayerFromString(nameString) |
02 | local matches= {} |
03 | for _, player in ipairs (game.Players:GetPlayers()) do |
04 | if string.lower(player.Name):match("^".. string.lower(nameString)) then |
05 | table.insert(matches, player) |
06 | end |
07 | end |
08 | if #matches== 1 then |
09 | return matches[1] |
10 | else |
11 | return nil |
12 | end |
13 | 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:
01 | local Players = game:GetService'Players'; |
02 | local function GetPlayerFromSubString(Name) |
03 | Name = Name:lower():reverse(); |
04 | for _,a in pairs(Players:GetPlayers())do |
05 | local b = (a.Name):lower():reverse(); |
06 | if string.find(b,Name,#b-#Name)then -- Note: #(string) is the same as string.len |
07 | return a; |
08 | end; |
09 | end; |
10 | end; |
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