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Targeting Players without Full Name?
Hey, how would I target a player without using their full name? Eg if I type "kill tack" it will do the same thing as typing "kill tacktic2010"
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You could check if the name starts with what you want:
1 | local function FindPlayer(name) |
2 | name = name:lower() -- "AbcGG" becomes "abcgg" |
3 | for k,v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do |
4 | -- "MrSomebody" becomes "mrsom" if 'name' is 5 characters long |
5 | if v.Name:lower():sub(1,#name) == name then |
6 | return v -- found the player, return it |
7 | end |
8 | end |
9 | end |
Now you can do FindPlayer("tack") to find Tacktic2010.
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Thank you so much :) That was the perfect answer! tacktic2010 70 — 8y
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That would work, but if there are multiple matches, it'd return the first one. GoldenPhysics 474 — 8y
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Well you could return a table with all found players if you want to. einsteinK 145 — 8y
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It isn't very often that people have similar names on roblox, even if they do I can just write out more of the name so it is fine :) tacktic2010 70 — 8y
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Yeah, only time it would be an issue is if "Someone123" and "Someone12345" are both in-game einsteinK 145 — 8y
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1 | local function FindPlayer(name) |
2 | name = name:lower() |
3 | for k,v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do |
4 | if v.Name:lower():match("^"..name) then |
5 | return v |
6 | end |
7 | end |
8 | end |
Just for those wondering this is another way of doing it, thanks Pyro! <3