Check if a player argument is inside a string (read desc.)

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
  • I want to achieve a way to check if a certain word is inside my list of pre-made command aliases
  1. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
  • I’m aware of %s but it doesnt seem to fit my needs for this particular issue
  1. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
  • Searching it up on google and experimenting in-studio

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antibreakcmd = {
	"ayo, teleport %s here",
	"ayo, tp %s to me",
	"ayo, please bring %s over here"
}

So above me is a piece of code that I want to implement for my command. I wanna somehow check if the command is equal to any of the above aliases. And for that I will need to have something that tells the code that the chat message is equal to any of the cmd aliases. Example:

Example

Let’s say someone typed:

[Any Admin]: ayo, teleport PLAYER to me

this would teleport PLAYER to the admin. I already have a function for teleporting the player btw, and checking if the string is correct although not with the player argument implemented. Here is the script btw:

Check if the command matches with the chat string 
function CheckCmd(msg, Type, user)
	print(msg) -- message from user
	print(user) -- user who send message
	print(Type) -- the list of command aliases
	for _, correct in ipairs(Type) do
		print(correct)
		if msg == correct then
			return true
		end
	end
	return false
end
Command format if u need it

And also this:

	if CheckCmd(msg, antibreakcmd, speaker) then --Chat Command
	--My teleport script is in here.
    end

Sincerely,
Dev_Mathe

#2

if you want to find a string in another string, maybe use string.find()

print(string.find(string1, string2));
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#3

I don’t know if that would be a bit difficult to implement as the other commands don’t require an argument. I’ll try anyways : )

#4

Why not just use FindFirstChild

local Player = Players:FindFirstChild(String1)
if not Player then return end;
print(Player)
#5

it might work, but I have decided to just give up on this and make something else related. Thank you for the help though :slight_smile:

I’ll just mark this as the solution