How would I find a players username without having to worry about caps?
Basically I want to create a function that returns a players full name with correct capitilization from any form of captilization and shortened names.
Ex.
- Player named gmatchOnRoblox
- I'd give a function GmAtch
- It'd return gmatchOnRoblox
Current code that I have:
local fetchUsername = function()
for _,v in next, Players:GetPlayers() do
local decode = string.match((v.Name):lower(), RawUsername .. "%w+")
return Players[decode].Name
end
end
RawUsername is just a string given to the function from a variable, i.e a players name. What I wanted it to do was return the players name correctly in perfect capitilization. Could anyone help me out here?
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Use string.lower() on both the player's name and the argument to make them both in lowercase, which will make it ignore capitalization. Btw you don't have to use string.match(), you can use string.sub(), it's easier.
local function FetchUsername(name)
for i,v in pairs(game:GetService"Players""GetPlayers") do
if v.Name:lower():sub(1, #name) == name:lower() then
return v
end
end
end
Or if you want it to return a table with all found players, do this:
local function FetchUsername(name)
local t = {}
for i,v in pairs(game:GetService"Players""GetPlayers") do
if v.Name:lower():sub(1, #name) == name:lower() then
t[#t + 1] = v --much like table.insert
end
end
return t
end
Here it's broken down to step by step, in case you don't understand this strange magic:
local function FetchUsername(name)
for i,v in pairs(game:GetService"Players""GetPlayers") do
local plrNameLowercase = v.Name:lower() --player's name in lowercase
local nameLowercase = name:lower() --name we're searching for in lowercase
if plrNameLowercase:sub(1, #nameLowercase) == nameLowercase then --if first x characters of the player's name are the same as nameLowercase, where x is the length of nameLowercase, so i.e. if player name is gmatchOnRoblox and name is gmat, it checks if first 4 characters are "gmat"
return v
end
end
end