Help with string.split using chat messages

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#1

Okay so, I am attempting to script something in ServerScriptService that registers when a player chats “;jail” and then gets the name of the user after it, like “;jail MochaTheDev.” I honestly have no clue how to use string.split so could anyone tell me? ALSO: The user needs to be in a specific roblox group for it to work. This is what I have so far;

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg) 
		if msg == "example" and player:IsInGroup(12345678) then
			
		end
	end)
end)
#2

I have a youtube video on how to do something like this. It is unlisted along with all my videos but you can still get to it through the link here.

#3

Heres some lazy old code I wrote in around 5 minutes.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
  player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
    local splitted = string.split(msg," ")
    if splitted[1] == ";jail" and player:IsInGroup(YOURGROUPID) then
      local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(splitted[2])
      if plr then
        --// just do whatever you want to do with the player here
      end
    end
  end)
end)

This should work. I dont know.
You can also use string.sub() to detect player’s names with spaces aswell.

#4

This is hilarious, wrote some exact code for my friend the other day… Here, hope this helps.

The command in chat would be something like; “#jail | crem”

local groupId = 13609244
local rank = 255

local JailTeleportPart = jailPart
local spawnPart = part --part you want the player to return to after being released

function getplr(givenstring)
    for _,possplr in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
        local possplrname = possplr.Name
        if possplrname:lower():find(givenstring) then
            return possplr
        end
    end
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    if Player:GetRankInGroup(groupId) >= rank then
        Player.Chatted:Connect(function(Message)
            local Words = string.split(Message, " | ")

            if Words[1] == "#jail" then
                local PTJ = getplr(Words[2])
                if PTJ ~= nil then
                    for _,gui in pairs(PTJ.PlayerGui:GetChildren()) do
                      if gui:IsA("ScreenGui") then
                        gui.Enabled = false
                      end
                    end
                    PTJ.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(JailTeleportPart.CFrame)
                    wait(5)
                   for _,gui in pairs(PTJ.PlayerGui:GetChildren()) do
                      if gui:IsA("ScreenGui") then
                        gui.Enabled = true
                      end
                    end
                    PTJ.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(spawnPart.CFrame)
                else
                    -- error message goes here, smth like "player could not be found etc
                end
            end
        end)
    end
end)
#5

I was also struggling with this awhile back. Here is a forum post that should help you out.

#6

Gotchu. I will explain everything for your case:

Starter code is what you have, minus this:

Ok, so what you want to do is first split the string by spaces:
local splitMsg = msg:split(" ")

Then what you want to do is get (maybe) the command and the playerName. Note I said maybe because it could be a normal message that’s why we need a few if statements to check:

local command = splitMsg[1]
local playerName = splitMsg[2]

if command == ";jail" then
    if game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName) then
        local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName)
    end
end

Now, execute your code. It’s that simple!
Example code for a kick command:


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg) 
        local splitMsg = msg:split(" ")
        local command = splitMsg[1]
        local playerName = splitMsg[2]

        if command == ";kick" then
            if game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName) then
                local plr = game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName)
                plr:Kick("You’ve been kicked by someone")
           end
        end
    end)
end)

Hope that clears things up.

Edits: formatting