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How to check if the name of a part starts with a certain phrase?
I am making a disco floor and in the disco floor's code I am doing this:
for i,v in pairs(script.Parent.Parts:GetChildren()) do
if v.Name == "discoPart" then
-- Insert disco code here
end
end
I want to make my disco floor more sophisticated, but not put a script in every block, so how do I check if the part name starts with disco but then it doesn't matter what else follows?
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Use string.sub like so.
for i, v in pairs(script,Parent.Parts:GetChildren()) do
if string.sub(v.Name, 1, 5) == 'disco' then
--insert stuff here
end
end
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By using the sub[string] method of the string library.
for i,v in pairs(script.Parent.Parts:GetChildren()) do
if v.Name:sub(1,5) == "disco" then
-- Insert disco code here
end
end