Kicking a player regardless of capitalization

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#1

Hello,

I am making a custom admin panel, and am making a kick feature.
I’m making it so that players can just type in the short name, example:
chicken instead of ChickenCrat, however, I have an issue when it comes to the capitalization.

My script finds chickencrat, but doesn’t kick since the name has capitals and I’m not sure how to get around this.
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I’m sure the solution is rather simple, I’ve looked everywhere but couldn’t find it.
To summarise, I want something that could kick people regardless of capitals,
player types chi, script gets chickencrat, ChickenCrat gets kicked even with the 2 capitals.

Thank you greatly.

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#2 
function kickNameMatches(inputName, playerName)
    return nil ~= string.find(playerName:lower(), inputName:lower())
end

print(kickNameMatches("chicK", "chickenTest")) --true
print(kickNameMatches("chick", "chickenTest")) --true
print(kickNameMatches("chickEnTeSt", "chickenTest")) --true 
print(kickNameMatches("chickenTest1", "chickenTest")) --false
print(kickNameMatches("chiskenTest", "chickenTest")) --false

EDIT: Or in words:
Compare the lower-case version of the two strings instead of the actual strings.

EDIT: Version that only matches start of name (prevents accidentally kicking wrong player)

function kickNameMatches(inputName, playerName)
    return nil ~= string.match(playerName:lower(), "^" .. inputName:lower())
end

print(kickNameMatches("chick", "chickenTest")) --true
print(kickNameMatches("chickEnTeSt", "chickenTest")) --true 
print(kickNameMatches("enTest", "chickenTest")) --false
print(kickNameMatches("chickenTest1", "chickenTest")) --false
print(kickNameMatches("chiskenTest", "chickenTest")) --false
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#3

Hello,

I’ve tried your code, and it says "True isn’t a valid member of Players “Players”
Would you know a way to change the boolean to a string, which I can kick with?

Thanks,
ChickenCrat

#4

You should provide the script and/or function you’re working with so that a relevant solution can be provided.

#5

Try this:

the function works like this, even shortned names work:

function getUser(stringName)
	stringName = string.lower(stringName)
	for i, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if string.sub(string.lower(v.Name),1,#stringName) == stringName then
			return v
		end
	end
	return nil
end
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#6

Hello,
The code I am working with is below:

local kick = game.ReplicatedStorage.remoteEvents.playerKick
kick.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, name)
	local shortName = name
	shortName = string.lower(shortName)

	for _,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		local fullName = string.lower(plr.Name)
		if shortName == string.sub(fullName,1,string.len(shortName)) then
			game.Players[fullName]:Kick("You have been kicked from the game by an Admin")
		else
			game.ReplicatedStorage.remoteEvents.kickClient:FireClient(plr)
		end
	end
end)
#7

Hello,

I’ve tried your code but it returns with invalid argument #2 (string expected, got Instance).

Thanks,
ChickenCrat

#8 
local kick = game.ReplicatedStorage.remoteEvents.playerKick
kick.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, name)
	local foundPlayers = {}
	local lowerSearch = string.lower(name)
	
	for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		local lowerName = string.lower(player.Name)
		if string.match(lowerName, "^"..lowerSearch) then
			table.insert(foundPlayers, player)
		end
	end
	
	if #foundPlayers == 1 then
		foundPlayers[1]:Kick("You have been kicked from the game by an Admin")
	else
		game.ReplicatedStorage.remoteEvents.kickClient:FireClient(plr)
	end
end)

This will also prevent ambiguous searches from kicking players (a search term which matches the names of multiple players).

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#9

Yes, it worked!

Thank you very much.