String manipulation for admin commands?

The idea is kind of simple! Basically what we wanna get from the command is a "task" of some sort and a player's name, so what we could do is have a table containing the tasks and game.Players:GetPlayers(), a table containing all players. We would loop through each of these two things, and each time we check if there is a valid task that exists, and check if there was a name in the command that corresponds with one of the players's name. So first we see the task we have, than find the player we want to effect.

local tasks = {"shoot", "aim", "kill"}

local task
local target
 
for __, v in pairs(tasks) do
	if message:match(v) then --remember :match will return nil if there was nothing matched
		task = v
		for _, p in(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
			if message:match(p.Name) then
				target = p
				break --we stop the loop so it always picks just the first found name
			end
		end
	end
end
		

You can get so creative with string manipulation! Just open your mind Here is a nice article on some advanced string wizardry. (although wiki is currently down)