Difficulties getting the player [Solved]

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#1

What I’m trying to do should be fairly simple, but for some reason my code has been sadistically failing, and not achieving my academic goals that I am trying to reach.

local PS = game:GetService('Players')

local Msg= '/example kyler_josiah' 
local Name=string.sub(msg,9,msg:len())--works(gets name)

local Plr = PS.Name-- doesn't work

And although I have tried many solutions, most ineffectually failed. Concluding that the best contender would be online.

#2

is this on the server or on the client

#3

Do you want all the players? And is this a local or server script

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#4

Could you give some more information? I don’t really understand what you are trying to achieve. Is the ‘/example kyler_joshiah’ eventually gonna be used in a Chatted event?

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#5

Yes, the code would be executed through the Chatted function.

#6

A selected player. Server sided.

#7

You can use Player.Chatted, I suggest looking through the link I put.
Here is an example though

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) -- Player is the player that was added

  player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg) -- msg is the message sent
        -- do stuff with msg and player
        local Plr = player.Name -- Will work
  end)

end)
#8

Sadly i do not have any expierence with string.sub etc. Haven’t really learned it. But is this something ur looking for?

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
		if msg == '/example kyler_josiah' then
			print(plr.Name)
		end
	end)
end)
#9

I believe this is what you’re trying to accomplish, but I do believe you’re better off using string.split to parse messages.

local PS = game:GetService('Players')

local Msg= '/example kyler_josiah' 
local Name=string.sub(Msg,10,Msg:len())

local Plr = PS[Name]
#10

Btw, You are not using the

local PS = game:GetService('Players')

Anywhere in your code. :wink:

#11

I see what you’re looking for

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local message = "/example uwuCulturist"

local filteredMessage = string.split(message," ")
local playerName = filteredMessage[2]
local player = players:FindFirstChild(playerName)
if not player then
    return warn(("Player '%s' not found"):format(playerName))
end
print(player)
#13

On top of this, you’re trying to index nil instead of using findfirstchild so that’s your second error

#14

K there I edited it and removed game.Players

#15

This exactly meets the standard. And I originally did use “FindFirstChild”.