Is there a way to separate text from a string and search a part by its name?

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#1

I have been trying to find a way to separate text from a string to search a part in a model, if the text has “Red Blue” it separates into “Red” and “Blue” and searches the parts with the same name and clones them infront of the player.
Is there a way to do that?
I have tried asking some friends and searching here but nothing appeared.

#2

The string library provides string.gmatch which can iterate through a string and gives you a match.
In order to use it you need to know about String Patterns.
The first parameter is the string we want to search in, the second is the pattern we want to look for.
In this case the pattern will be "%w+" The %w matches a single letter or number. The + combines as many %w (letter/number) as it can into one match.
word

So your code will end up looking a bit like this:

local stringToSearch = "mopy Dr Red Blue"
local modelToSearch = workspace

for match in string.gmatch(stringToSearch,"%w+") do
    local thing = modelToSearch:FindFirstChild(match)
    if not thing then
        warn(match,"was not found in",modelToSearch:GetFullName())
    end
    thing = thing:Clone()
    --set position
    --parent to somewhere in workspace
end
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#3

If all of the parts are explicitly named Red, Blue, or whatever the player decides to input, then you don’t need substring matching.

local text = "Red Blue"
local model = ...

local names = text:split()

for i, descendant in pairs(model:GetDescendants()) do
    if table.find(names, descendant.Name) then
        local clone = Part:Clone()
        --
    end
end
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#4

Thanks, it perfectly worked as intended

#5

Thanks for helping, you’re cool