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Very simple question. Is there a way to locate an instance/object given part of its name?
Lets say you have the following instances/objects:
[1] Eat breakfast [2] Eat lunch [3] Each dinner
Is there a way or a method to get the instance/object [2] Eat lunch by just using part of its name like "[2]?"
So for instance, is there a method that will search through those instances/objects and find the instance/object with the [2] in its name and give it to you so you can manipulate it further?
I have been trying to find such a method but I'm not even sure if it exists on ROBLOX?
Something like game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("[2]") which would give you [2] Eat lunch.
Please give me a direction, anything so I can move in the right direction.
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1. Get every object that you want to be searchable and put it in a table, you can use a loop to do this for you quickly. EzraNehemiah_TF2 3552 — 4y
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2. Use string.find and compare the names of the items inside of the table to the search term. If there is no match, it will return nil. EzraNehemiah_TF2 3552 — 4y
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3. If string.find returns a value that exists, then put it into another table (because perhaps there are multiple matches that exist). That's probably the easiest way to do it. EzraNehemiah_TF2 3552 — 4y
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https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/string For more on string.find and other string functions. EzraNehemiah_TF2 3552 — 4y
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local t = {EatBreakfast, Dinner, Lunch}
local found = table.find(t,1) -- EatBreakfast
workspace[found] -- The instance!
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This doesn't make any sense? Can you explain? Arithmeticity 167 — 4y