Player Issues & String Issues lowercase, shortening names, ect

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
1

What I’m trying to do is.
1. Shorten the Player Name & 2 Not require Capitalization for the name while also allowing it. I’m also trying to do this with chat commands so I’m looking to allow any capitalization for both player and the command.

function SplitMessageParts(SplitType,Message,ReturnPart)
	if SplitType == "Space" then
		local Split = Message:split(" ")
		return Split[ReturnPart]
	else
		--
	end
end

game.Players.LocalPlayer.Chatted:Connect(function(Message)
	if SplitMessageParts("Space",Message,1) == PortalRequiredText[1].Text and SplitMessageParts("Space",Message,2) == IsAPlayer(SplitMessageParts("Space",Message,2)) then
end

^ My way of finding if the string is valid is also very messy so if I can get any help with that too i’d be amazing.

function IsAPlayer(Name)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		if v.Name == Name then
			return Name
		else

		end
	end
end
2

Have you tried using string:lower combined with string:match?

3

wouldn’t lower just make the entire thing lowercase? I’m trying to make it detect everything like PROXelsEl

4

Then string:match should help you.

5 
function IsAPlayer(Name)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		if v.Name:match(Name)  then
			return Name
		else

		end
	end
end
6

Would this be for capitalization or to shorten the name because I tried to shorten it and it gave an error.

7 
function IsAPlayer(Name)
	local lowerName = Name:lower()
	for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if v.Name:lower() == lowerName then
			return Name
		else
			for i = 1, #lowerName do
				if v.Name:lower():sub(1, i) == lowerName then
					return Name
				end
			end 
		end
	end
end

It will return the correctly capitalized name of the player, if the game finds the player associated with the input name. If you want it to return the player instead, you can simply do: return v

Script 
function findPlayer(Name)
	local lowerName = Name:lower()
	for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if v.Name:lower() == lowerName then
			return v
		else
			for i = 1, #lowerName do
				if v.Name:lower():sub(1, i) == lowerName then
					return v
				end
			end 
		end
	end
end

local searchedPlayer = findPlayer("Player123")
if searchedPlayer then
    print("Player was found!")
end
8

It doesn’t return the fully capitalized name though I
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added a print and it just returned what you first sent.
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9 
function SplitMessageParts(SplitType, Message, ReturnPart)
	
	if SplitType == "Space" then
		
		local SplitMessage = string.split(Message, " ")
		
		if ReturnPart then
			return SplitMessage[ReturnPart]
		else
			return SplitMessage
		end
		
	else
		
		
		
	end
	
end

game.Players.LocalPlayer.Chatted:Connect(function(Message)
	if SplitMessageParts("Space", Message, 1) == PortalRequiredText[1].Text and SplitMessageParts("Space", Message, 2) == IsAPlayer(SplitMessageParts("Space", Message, 2)) then
		
	end
end)

function IsAPlayer(Name)
	
	for i, v in ipairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		
		if string.lower(v.Name) == string.lower(Name) then
			return v.Name
		else

		end
		
	end
end

Hopefully I understood what you were trying to do correctly!

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10

My bad… I meant to return the player’s name, not the input name in the function.

function IsAPlayer(Name)
	local lowerName = Name:lower()
	for _, v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if v.Name:lower() == lowerName then
			return v.Name
		else
			for i = 1, #lowerName do
				if v.Name:lower():sub(1, i) == lowerName then
					return v.Name
				end
			end 
		end
	end
end
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11

Thank you so much it works!! Have an amazing day.