How to find player?

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#1

Hi,

I am making admin system.
Problem is my actual name is NewStar_Blox. But if I say /ban newstar_blox it don’t work.
So I want to make it work but this script not working.
I tried this code that I made but it wouldn’t work.

local plrName = "newstar_blox"
local plrId
  for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
    if string.lower(v.Name) == string.lower(plrName) then
      plrId = v.UserId
  end
end

Thank you,

#2

I don’t think your issue is coming from this part of your code.

#3

I made that code to fix this. But it doesn’t work.

#4

Could you post the rest of your code? This bit will work fine as long as it runs after you’ve loaded into the game.

#5 
local timeUnits = {d = 24*60*60, h = 60*60, m = 60, s = 1}


local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local banDS = dss:GetDataStore("CommandPlayerBan")


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	
	local result = nil
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		result = banDS:GetAsync(plr.UserId .. "-BanData")
	end)
	
	if result then
		
		local thenTime = result[1]
		local nowTime = os.time()
		local banTime = result[2]
		local reason = result[3]
		local timeDiff = nowTime - thenTime
		
		if timeDiff < banTime then
			
			local newTime = banTime - timeDiff
			
			plr:Kick(reason .. "\nBanned for " .. newTime .. "s")
			
			
		else
			
			pcall(function()
				banDS:SetAsync(plr.UserId .. "-BanData", nil)
			end)
		end
	end
	
	local Allowed = {
		"Programmer",
		"Tester",
		"3D Designer",
		"Main Developer",
		"Engineer",
		"Artist",
		"Builder",
		"GroupAdmin"
	}
	
	if table.find(Allowed, plr:GetRoleInGroup(6589440))  then
		
		
		plr.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
			
			local splitMsg = string.split(message, " ")
			
			local banCmd = splitMsg[1]
			local plrName = splitMsg[2]
			local banTime = splitMsg[3]
			local reason = "You banned by " .. plr.Name .. " (" .. plr:GetRoleInGroup(6589440) .. ") Reason: " .. splitMsg[4] or "You banned by " .. plr.Name .. " (" .. plr:GetRoleInGroup(6589440) .. ")"
			
			
			if banCmd == "/ban" and plrName and banTime then
				
				local timeUnit = string.sub(banTime, -1, -1)
				local timeAmount = string.sub(banTime, 1, #banTime-1)
				local seconds = timeUnits[timeUnit]
				
				
				if seconds then
					local plrId
					for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
						if string.lower(v.Name) == string.lower(plrName) then
							plrId = v.UserId
						end
					end
					if not table.find(Allowed, game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(plrId):GetRoleInGroup(6589440)) then
						if plrId then

							local banTimeSeconds = seconds * timeAmount

							pcall(function()
								banDS:SetAsync(plrId .. "-BanData", {os.time(), banTimeSeconds, reason})
							end)

							if game.Players:FindFirstChild(plrName) then

								game.Players[plrName]:Kick(reason .. "\nBanned for " .. banTime)
							end
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end)
	end
end)
#6

Have you done any debugging to find which line its actually failing to get to?

Also this part here:

if game.Players:FindFirstChild(plrName) then
	game.Players[plrName]:Kick(reason .. "\nBanned for " .. banTime)
end

It’s searching for the name then it’s case sensitive. Your earlier part of your code that lowers it doesn’t do anything to help this last line.

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