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How Would I Use String.Match To Improve My Chat Command Script?

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I've been looking for ways to improve my chat commands script and I came across string.match... I thought it would be useful in my case because instead of me having to type in the targeted player's full username and use find first child to look for something matching that, i could use it and type an abbreviation of the plr's name, and then have the script search for the closest matching plr in player service. But I don't know how to use it.

local Valid_Commands_Table = require(game:GetService("ServerStorage").ValidCommands)
local Permitted_Players = require(game:GetService("ServerStorage").PlayerNamesPermitted)
local ToWarnEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").ToWarn
local Maximum_Amount_Of_Warns = 3
function Check(Plr)
	for _, Permitted_Player in pairs(Permitted_Players) do
		return Plr.Name == Permitted_Player
	end
end
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Warns_Num_Value = Instance.new("NumberValue")
	Warns_Num_Value .Parent = Player
	Warns_Num_Value.Name = "Warns"
	Player.Chatted:Connect(function(StringMsg)
		local SplitString = StringMsg:split(" ")
		if Check(Player) and SplitString[1] == Valid_Commands_Table[1] then --Kick Command
			local NameOfPlayer = SplitString[2]
			local ActualPlayer = game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(NameOfPlayer)
			if ActualPlayer then
				local Reason = StringMsg:split(NameOfPlayer)[2]
				ActualPlayer:Kick(Reason)
			end
		elseif Check(Player) and SplitString[1] == Valid_Commands_Table[2] then
			local Name_Of_Player = SplitString[2]
			local PlayerToWarn = game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(Name_Of_Player)
			local Reason = StringMsg:split(Name_Of_Player)[2]
			local WarnsInPlayer = PlayerToWarn:WaitForChild("Warns")
			if WarnsInPlayer then
				WarnsInPlayer.Value += 1
				ToWarnEvent:FireClient(PlayerToWarn)
				if WarnsInPlayer.Value >= 3 then
					PlayerToWarn:Kick("Max Number Of Warns Reached, therefore you have been kicked from the server.")
				end
			end
		elseif Check(Player) and SplitString[1] == Valid_Commands_Table[3] then
			local Targets = SplitString[2]
			if Targets == "All" then
				for _, TargetedPlayer in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetChildren()) do
					local Char_Of_Plr = TargetedPlayer.Character
					local HumanoidOfTP = Char_Of_Plr.Humanoid
					HumanoidOfTP:TakeDamage(HumanoidOfTP.MaxHealth)
				end
			else
				local NameOfTargetedPlr = SplitString[2]
				local ActualPlayer = game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(NameOfTargetedPlr)
				if ActualPlayer then
					ActualPlayer.Character.Humanoid:TakeDamage(ActualPlayer.Character.Humanoid.MaxHealth)
				end
			end
		end
	end)
end)

^ Chat Commands Script I Have.

Anonymous

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Instead of string.match, you can use string.sub. String.sub gets the substring of a string or a part of a string.

Here's an example:

local String = "Hello!"
local substring = string.sub(String, 1, 5) -- first 5 characters of the string
print(substring) -- "Hello"

With your code, we can get the splitstring and then loop through all the players and then detect if a substring of every player is the same thing as the substring.

If you're confused, I made a string which explains a few things:

local Name = SplitString[2] 
for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- loops through all the players
    if string.sub(v.Name, 1, #Name) == Name then -- detects if the substring of a player is equal to the split string
        print("The player name is " .. v.Name) -- if it works, it'll print something like: The player name is raid6n
    end
end
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Thanks a lot for that!

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