I know you can only do this with strings but is there a way to find a player from someone typing their name partially?
Is there a way to format a list of all the players as a string and then find the one you need
For example:
string = {player1,player2}
string.find(string,1)
print(the value with '1' in it)
finding a way to find a player by partial is relatively easy:
function findPlayer(msg)
local msg = msg:lower()
for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local name = v.Name:lower():sub(0, msg:len())
if name == msg then
return v
end
end
return nil
end
This works in the example:
function findPlayer(msg)
local msg = msg:lower()
for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local name = v.Name:lower():sub(0, msg:len())
if name == msg then
return v
end
end
return nil
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
print(findPlayer(msg).Name)
end)
end)
if you wish to make this compatible with a table change "game.Players:GetPlayers())" to the table name and change v.Name to just v
you can use string.match() to find a specific character or word inside a string. Such as this example:
--client
local TextBox = script.Parent -- lets say the script was located inside the textbox
TextBox:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Text"):Connect(function()
for _,player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local lower = string.lower(TextBox.Text)
local lowerplayer = string.lower(player.Name)
if string.match(lowerplayer,lower) then -- if the player name has a word or letter inside the string then
print(player.Name) -- prints the player's name
end
end
end)
string.lower() turns the string specified letters to lowercase, since string.match() also includes capital and lowercase letters too. :GetPropertyChangedSignal() fires when the property inside the parentheses changes.
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use string.match()
what do you mean by typing in, the user typing in chat or in a textbox?
I mean in a text box which then changes a value to the text they typed.