How would I find a user without entering the full name?

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I’m making a ban command and I’m trying to make it so you don’t have to type the full name.

So let’s say there’s one of those dsqhDHQZHDSIQHQ accounts, I want to be able to type :ban dsqhdh (not case sensitive). How would I do that?

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local function GetPlayer(String)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if (string.sub(string.lower(v.Name), 1, string.len(String))) == string.lower(String) then
			return v
		end
	end
end

GetPlayer("dsqhdh") --// if dsqhDHQZHDSIQHQ is in game it will return him
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Edit: Fixed typo and made it cleaner.

string.find() is your best friend :wink: (jk its not lol). you can do something like:

function getplayer(targetplayer)
	targetplayer = string.upper(targetplayer)
	for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local name = string.upper(player.Name)
		if string.find(name, targetplayer) then
			return player
		end
	end
	return false
end

Note that the indentation is horrible because I wrote it on forums. and also note that “targetplayer” has to be all uppercase (use string.upper(targetplayer) or something like that)

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You could do this but its harder to understand then just straight up using string.find(). Good stuff though :D.

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Thanks to everybody I’ll try what you guys said. (by the way didn’t need to give me the code but it’s appreciated!)