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Finding if small portion is at start of players name?
Hi,
So I'm making admin commands for my game. I want it so that ';kill noob' is the same as ';kill noob123'. I am curently using workspace:FindFirstChild(plr) (player is the first argument of the command). I know that it it will be something like:
1 | if workspace:FindFIrstChild(game.Players:findFirstChild(str.find(plr), plr)) |
or something more complicated by going through each player in the game.Players to see if their name includes that, and if it does set the plr variable to the full name.
Whatever it is, I really need help. Anything would be greatly appreciated.
-Bizz
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01 | function searchPlayer(searchName) |
02 |
03 | searchName = "^"..searchName:lower() --Pattern in lowercase and ^ for searching at the beggining |
04 |
05 | for _, plr in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do |
06 |
07 | local plrName = plr.Name:lower() --Lowercase the player name |
08 |
09 | if plrName:find(searchName) then --Make the search and return the player if it's true |
10 | return plr |
11 | end |
12 |
13 | end |
14 |
15 | end |
16 |
17 | searchPlayer("Holies") |
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it doesn't work BizzareBazaar 22 — 4y