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.

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

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.

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;