How do I match a string with an object?
I tried this:
local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers
function findPlayer(message,speaker)
if (string.sub(message,1,5) == "kill/" and (string.sub(message,7) == plrs.Name then
print("kaboom.")
end
This script is trying to match a chat message with an object, but this won't work.
BTW, don't tell me I don't know how to use tables and to add parenthesis, I just want to know how I am supposed to get a string and if the string matches with the player's name, then print kaboom.
1 answer
Well, there are several mistakes here.
One is, as you listed in your initial message, the lack of parenthesis in the part
local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers
which won't work unless you make it
local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers()
Next, in the statement plrs, you have a list of all the players in the game - Not one player. Take for example if I did
local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers()
plrs might be a list like:
[1] - Player1
[2] - sayhisam1
[3] - laughablehaha
and so on. plrs.Name isn't actually a part of this list, so your script will throw an error at you because it doesn't know what to do because you are asking for something that doesn't exist.
To remedy this, you can check if the player's name matches for each and every player in the list. This is done with a loop, as follows:
for i,v in pairs(plrs) do
if v.Name == string.sub(message,7) then
print("Kaboom")
break -- This stops the loop
end
end
Putting it all together, you might end up with some code like this:
local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers()
function findPlayer(message,speaker)
if (string.sub(message,1,5) == "kill/" then
for i,v in pairs(plrs) do
if v.Name == string.sub(message,7) then
print("Kaboom")
break -- This stops the loop
end
end
end
end
There are also quite a few more errors here, such as the usage of string.sub() in order to find the player's name. It won't work because string.sub() returns a substring of a string, meaning that if you have something of variable length like a player's name, you won't necessarily know how long the substring should be.
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