Get PartialName in a command

[Lostude]

Hey there, I am making my own admin commands and I want to be able to find the player from their partial name instead of typing a player’s full username.

--// FUNCTIONS

local function PartialName(PartialName)
	local FoundPlayer = nil
	local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()

	for i = 1, #Players do
		local CurrentPlayer = Players[i]

		if string.find(string.lower(CurrentPlayer.Name), string.lower(PartialName)) then
			FoundPlayer = CurrentPlayer.Name
		end
	end

	if not FoundPlayer then
		return nil	
	else
		return FoundPlayer
	end
end


--// Speed Command
Commands.speed = function(player, args)
	if args[1] == "me" then
		if tonumber(args[2]) then
			player.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = args[2]
		end
	else
		for i, v in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
			if string.lower(PartialName(v.Name)) == args[1] then
				local PlayerToSpeed = v
				print(v)
				
				PlayerToSpeed.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = args[2]
			end
		end
	end
end

I have gave this a go, however it didn’t work and I don’t know how I could do this. Any help will be appreciated.

[calvin_coco (where)]

Something like this?

function getPlr(msg:string)
	local p

	for _, player in game.Players:GetPlayers() do
		if player.Name:match(msg) then
			p = player
			break
		end
	end

	return p
end

@Lostude

if not FoundPlayer then
	return nil	
else
	return FoundPlayer
end

Why do you need to check if it is nil? You could just return FoundPlayer, you don’t even need to check if its nil.

[lrisDev]

This should work to how he’d like with a few changs,

function getPlr(msg:string)
	local p

	for _, player in game.Players:GetPlayers() do
		if player.Name:lower():find(msg:lower()) then
			p = player
			break
		end
	end

	return p
end