Get all players except the local player

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#1

Trying to get all players from a local script except the local player.

I have tried getting all players then doing an if statement but that wasn’t working.

#2
  1. loop through all players
  2. if they aren’t the local player add them to table
  3. you get table of all players that aren’t local player
local plr = game.players.localplayer
local others = {}

for _, otherPlayer in pairs(game.players:GetPlayers()) do
   if otherPlayer ~= plr then
     table.insert(others,otherPlayer)
   end
end
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#3

Can’t you just do this?

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local playersTable = players:GetPlayers()
local plr = players.LocalPlayer

for i,player in pairs(playersTable) do
	if player.Name ~= plr.Name then continue end
	table.remove(playersTable,i)
	break
end

print(playersTable) -- will print all players besides local player

Gets the players in a variable, loop through the table, and remove the index that has to be removed. Not sure if if player ~= plr then continue end would do the same

edit: okay how did my brain forget that table.find existed for a second

#4 
local Players = game:GetService'Players'
local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer

local OtherPlayers = Players:GetPlayers()

table.remove(OtherPlayers, table.find(OtherPlayers, LocalPlayer))

print(OtherPlayers)
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#6

I am currently getting just a “Table: 000000000x82B”

#7

Alright, alright…

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local function DoSomethingWithNotALocalPlayer()
for _, Player in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
       if not Player == Players.LocalPlayer then
              print(Player.Name .. " is not the local player!!!1!!1!!!!1!1")
              -- Do something with the non-local player
       end
end
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(DoSomethingWithNotALocalPlayer) -- when player gets added, it goes through all the players and prints the name of all the other players. Of course, you could use this function in any other way, just by calling DoSomethingWithNotALocalPlayer().
#8

If you want to print all the players in the table then you can iterate the table with a for loop like so:

for i, Player in pairs(OtherPlayers) do
    print(Player)
end
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#9

nope, doesnt work. tried it and didn’t do anything.

#10

I know that already.

3O Player.Character

#11

Thanks, it works! It prints all players names.

#12

Yeah, that’s how all tables are supposed to work.
for example:

t={"Apple","Banana","Pear"}
for index,value in ipairs(t) do
print(index,value)
end
-- Output:
--[[
1    Apple
2    Banana
3    Pear
]]

ipairs only supplys the index (1st,2nd,3rd position in table etc…), but pairs supplies a string (for example {[“Key”]=value}) would print 1 for ipairs. but “Key” for pairs.