How do I look in a folder and do a string.match to see if any of the names of the items contain a certain word.

function MatchNameInFolder(folder,text) text = string.lower(text) for _,v in pairs(folder:GetChildren()) do if string.match(string.lower(v.Name),text) then return v end end end MatchNameInFolder(Folder,'PartName') You can learn more here: pairs and iPairs

How to check every item in a folder for something in its name

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Forummer (Forummer) January 28, 2022, 2:56am 6

Not sure how you performed your benchmarks but ipairs() will always iterate over an entire array faster than pairs can iterate over an entire dictionary (providing both are similar in length).