How do you filter search a name?

Asked Jun 7, 2018166 views2 answers

So, I have a script that puts a brick into the workspace. It names the brick after the player, e.g. 'Scaii_0'sOwnPart' or 'ROBLOX'sOwnPart'. But I have another script that needs to try find ANY part named like this.

so it goes something like this:

if part.name == "ANYTHINGHERE'sOwnPart"

But, I'm not sure on how to do this. How would I look if something was in a name and ingore the rest of the name?

AnonymousJun 7, 2018

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

Since you're searching for 'OwnPart and the Name property is a string, you can use string manipulation:

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/String_manipulation

I'd recommend something like:

if string.find(part.Name,"sOwnPart") ~= nil

AnonymousJun 7, 2018Edited Jun 7, 2018Permalink

String patterns (or just plain matches) are GREAT, I tell you!

Make a search using Pairs, Next, or IPairs, then check if their name contains OwnPart.

Part.Name:match('%\'%S*') --escape character because I used apostrophes

for i, v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
	if v.Name:match('%\'%S*') then
		--code here
	end
end

for i, v in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
	if v.Name:match('OwnPart') then
		--code here
	end
end

AnonymousJun 7, 2018Permalink

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