How to make a check for a textbox

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#1

So basically I’m making a weapon spawner and I have an Item Name textbox image How would I make it so if a player types in “a” all the weapons with A in the names will show up and if the player types like “Taser” then the button taser will appear and nothing else will?

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#2

You can use string.sub, or :find()
(these are 2 methods I know of)

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#3

Let’s say the typed text called is x.

If x was a, it would check all the names that start with a. Meaning, all the name where the first character is a, and everything that has an “a” (the name of the label has to correspond with the gun’s name) is stored into a temporary table called show for example

local x = "a" --this is the text for example
local show = {}

for i, v in pairs(all those lables) do
    if string.lower(string.sub(v.Name, 1, #x)) == x then
        table.insert(show, v)
    end
end

If you want a weapon containing the character and not starting with it you can do

local x = "a" --this is the text for example
local show = {}

for i, v in pairs(all those lables) do
    if string.match(string.lower(v.Name), x) then
        table.insert(show, v)
    end
end

And this would work whatever x is

Then you loop through show, and make only those labels visible, while the others are invisible, and make sure to make them alligned using UIListLayout, check them out

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