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how to find the nearest name of a player?
I was wondering how I would find the name of closest players name? Lets say I want to go ahead and say something like kill void or something. It would run and kill me. So far Ive been using this code which doesnt find the nearest target
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message) -- trying to make and admin script
if checkifadmin(player) then
if string.lower(string.sub(message,1,string.len("kill")))== "kill" then
print("Working")
local target = game.Players:FindFirstChild((string.lower(string.sub(message,6))))
local targetname = target.Name
local charecter = game.Workspace:WaitForChild(targetname)
print(charecter)
charecter.Humanoid.Health = 0
end
end
end)
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What you are looking for is string.find() first argument is the string you are checking, the second one is the string you are using to check the string from arguemnt 1. The rest are optional. It can be found on this link -> https://developer.roblox.com/api-reference/lua-docs/string . The way string.find() works is that it will return the location of where the small section of the string is. For example:
local var1 = string.find("potato","ota")
print(var1) -- prints "2,4"
--[[ Because in "2" letters
that's where it starts and in "4"
letters, that is where it ends.]]
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I can explain more because i made admin once SoftlockedUnderZero 668 — 5y
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Could you explain how I use string.find? voidofdeathfire 148 — 5y
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She literally just explained it for you. How is this not clear enough? DeceptiveCaster 3761 — 5y
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No what to input in it i don't understand the output and input of string.find? voidofdeathfire 148 — 5y
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note string.find will return nil if it does not find anything of the sub string SoftlockedUnderZero 668 — 5y