Finding a specific player in a game

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#1

I have been trying to find a way to find the player through putting their username in a textbox and when I click a button, it will either show that the game found the user or that it didn’t. I have trying to do this through a LocalScript. (I’m not trying to find the player clicking the button, but a way to find anyone who is in the game through searching for their username.)

I’ve been using table.create and table.find with no luck. Any help would be grealy appreciated!

This is the script I’ve been using:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local button = script.Parent.TextButton
local box = script.Parent.TextBox

local function getPlayer()
	local PlayerList = table.create(1, Players:GetChildren())
	local PlayerNameInput = box.Text
	local PlayerName = game.Players:FindFirstChild(PlayerNameInput)
	
	if table.find(PlayerList, PlayerName, 1) then
		print("Found " .. PlayerName .. "!")
	else
		warn("Could not find that player!")
	end
end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if box.Text == " " then
		button.Text = "Please input a username!"
		wait(1)
		button.Text = "Button"
	else
		getPlayer()
	end
end)
Music Scripting Help
#2

You are over complicating it, you can access all players by just using Players:GetPlayers()

Here’s a code I made for you:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local button = script.Parent.TextButton
local box = script.Parent.TextBox

local function getPlayer()
	local PlayerNameInput = box.Text
	local PlayerName = game.Players:FindFirstChild(PlayerNameInput)

for i, plr in game.Players:GetPlayers() do
      if plr == PlayerName then
         print("found "..plr.Name)
         end
   end
end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if box.Text == " " then
		button.Text = "Please input a username!"
		wait(1)
		button.Text = "Button"
	else
		getPlayer()
	end
end)
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