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How to find players name from part of their name?
I have attempted this using string.match, string.gmatch and string.find. The believe the best is string.find.
I want the script to print the players full name from part of their name. As a test I am using my name for an example. This is the script I have.
print(player.Name:find("Craz", 1, true))
This prints 1 4... How can I get this to print the full name?
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the reason it prints that is that the find function returns an interval in which the pattern was found theking48989987 2147 — 5y
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GetPlayers Table
Doing this is pretty simple, you just need to iterate through all the players in a game, then see which one matches the piece given, then break the for loop when it gets to that name, for example:
local matching
for _,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if plr.Name:find("Craz") then
matching = plr.Name
break
end
end
print(matching)
Alternatively, if you want to do this inside the loop, you can do the following:
for _,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if plr.Name:find("Craz") then
print(plr.Name)
break
end
end
please accept if this helped!
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Is there a way to find text aswell from like a table? So if the message was to say Hi CrazyCorrs could I find HI and only HI? CrazyCorrs 98 — 5y
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Yes, you can do print(String:sub(String:find("HI"))) Ziffixture 6913 — 5y