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How to make admin commands find player from incomplete username?
So I have an admin command script, it works fine, but its a pain typing out the entire username of a player to do a command, I want the effect admin scripts such as Kohl's have, where a player can be found just from the start of their username
local function findplayer(name)
for _,player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if string.lower(player.Name) == name then
return player
end
end
return nil
end
This is the current function that finds the player, anyone know how I can edit it to make this possible?
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local function findplayer(name)
for _,player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if string.find ( string.lower(player.Name), name) then
return player
end
end
return nil
end
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Thanks! this did the job NxvaRBLX 16 — 4y
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You would use string.match().
local function findplayer(name)
for _,player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local plr = string.lower(player.Name)
if string.match(name, plr) then
return player
end
end
return nil
end
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I wasn't aware of that, thanks. Still didn't fix it unfortunately NxvaRBLX 16 — 4y