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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:
local function FindPlayer(name)
name = name:lower() -- "AbcGG" becomes "abcgg"
for k,v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do
-- "MrSomebody" becomes "mrsom" if 'name' is 5 characters long
if v.Name:lower():sub(1,#name) == name then
return v -- found the player, return it
end
end
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 — 7y
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That would work, but if there are multiple matches, it'd return the first one. GoldenPhysics 474 — 7y
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Well you could return a table with all found players if you want to. einsteinK 145 — 7y
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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 — 7y
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Yeah, only time it would be an issue is if "Someone123" and "Someone12345" are both in-game einsteinK 145 — 7y
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local function FindPlayer(name)
name = name:lower()
for k,v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers()) do
if v.Name:lower():match("^"..name) then
return v
end
end
end
Just for those wondering this is another way of doing it, thanks Pyro! <3