How would i make it so it works without typing the full name?
local player = game.Players:FindFirstChild("world_kiIIer")
if player then
player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
if msg:lower():match("admin") then
if game.Players:FindFirstChild(msg:sub(7)) then
local target = game.Players:FindFirstChild(msg:sub(7))
game:GetService("Lighting").admin:Clone().Parent = target.Backpack
end
end
end)
end
so for example if i say admin g then it finds my name without me having to type my name out fully
1 answer
string.sub
sub is short for substring.
Part of a string is a substring.
The parameter names I used aren't the ones in the wiki, they weren't very descriptive so I made my own
string.sub(target, starting, ending) will return substring from string target starting at starting and ending at ending. Note that you don't need to provide ending, it will default to the length of the string if you don't need it.
Examples
lua
print(string.sub("Hello", 2, 4)); --> ell
print(string.sub("World", 1)); --> World
print(string.sub("foo bar", 2, 4)); --> oo b
If starting is negative, it will start from the end of the string rather than the start, so string.sub("Hello", -1) would return o because it is the last character.
lua
print(string.sub("Lua", -1)) --> a
print(string.sub("strings", -2)) --> gs (last 2 characters)
ending can be negative aswell. Here are examples;
lua
print(string.sub("dogs", -2, -1)); --> gs
--// since -1 is the last character, -2 is the second to last, ect
Here is a little function that gets a player from a partial string:
```lua local function getPlayerFromPartial(s) s = s:lower() --// so you don't need to lower it yourself
for _, client in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do --// assuming Players is defined as Players service
if client.Name:sub(1, #s):lower() == s then
return client
end
end
return nil
end ```
It traverses the table returned by Players:GetPlayers, checks the name of each player, lowercases it, gets the substring at 1, #s (#s is the length of the string, # is the unary length operator, though you should know already), and if there is a match, return the player. The function will return nil if no match.
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