Splitting Multiple Player Names

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#1

do ya’ll know how could i do something like this?
for example:

Survivors: Evan, Ivan, Michael, Paulo, Pablo.

here’s my code so far also
ps: im just a beginner

for i, char in pairs(survivors) do
				if char then
					Status.Value = "Survivors "string.split(i, Splitter)
				end
			end
#2

What do you mean exactly?.. Do you have a table of Player’s that survived, and you want to print them all in one sentence, with “Survivors:” printed in front?

#3

yeah something like this Evan, Ivan, Michael, Paulo, Pablo.

#4

You can use .concat on a table

local Table = {"Charles", "Richard", "Leopold"}
local newString = "Survivors: "..table.concat(Table, ", ")
print(newString)

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To break down “concat”, it takes the table, takes one value at a time (Charles then Richard ect. ect), seperates them in this case by a comma and a space, since we said ", ". You can make any seperator, it could even be " - "

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#5

Something like this?

Status.Value = 'Survivors: '

for i, char in pairs(survivors) do
    if char then
        Status.Value ..= char.Name

        if i < #survivors then
            Status.Value ..= ', '
        end
    end
end
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#6

Oh thats cool! I didn’t know about that.

#7

tysm for this i thought string.split actually for splitting names wish you’ll help more beginner devs

#8

Glad that I could help you out. If my reply was the solution, feel free to mark it so, so people know this question was solved.

#9

btw i got an error concatenating an arrays
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here’s the code:

Status.Value = "Survivors: "..table.concat(survivors, ", ")
#10

I assume that is because, you have inserted the players into the table, and not the player names. So first you gotta convert the player instances into player names. :slight_smile:

#11

ohh didn’t know that i could insert playersname in a table

#12

but doesn’t that still returns an array?

#13

Player.Names are actually just a string, where as the “Player” is a instance object. You can also use player names for debounces, so a killbrick would work for more than one player at the same time

local Players = game.Players
local Debounce = {}
Brick.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
	local C = Hit.Parent
	local H = C:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
	if H and H.Health > 0 then
		local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(C)
		if Player and not Debounce[Player.Name] then
			Debounce[Player.Name] = true -- inserts the player name
			H:TakeDamage(10)
			task.wait(0.25)
			Debounce[Player.Name] = nil -- removes the player.name
		end
	end
end)
#14

In output, it looks like it returns the same thing, but if you insert Player.Name in the table instead of Player, then you won’t be able to say

for _, Player in pairs(WinnersTable)
	Player.WinsStat += 1
end

But instead you should do

for _, PlayerName in pairs(WinnersTable)
	local Player = Players:FindFirstChild(PlayerName)
	if not Player then continue end
	Player.WinsStat += 1
end
#15

btw i tried this and it works

local SurvivorsName = {}

for i, player in pairs(PLAYERS:GetPlayers()) do
			if player:FindFirstChild("Alive") then
				table.insert(survivors, player)
				table.insert(SurvivorsName, player.Name)
			end
		end

Status.Value = "Survivors: "..table.concat(SurvivorsName, ", ")

and this is the result :joy:
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#16

Is the issue that there is only 1 player in the table?

#17

yes, maybe because i put it on a for i= 1, 3 do loop that’s why it keeps inserting the name of the player

#18

if you’d mind here’s my full script also how would i know if the player is already in the table so i can stop inserting it

function Round.StartRound(timer)
	local outcome
	local survivors = {}
	local SurvivorsName = {}

	for i= timer, 0, -1 do

		for i, player in pairs(PLAYERS:GetPlayers()) do
			if player:FindFirstChild("Alive") then
				table.insert(survivors, player)
				table.insert(SurvivorsName, player.Name)
			end
		end

		Status.Value = toms(i)

		--if #survivors <= 1 or #survivors == 1 then
		--	outcome = "1-player-left"
		--	break
		--end

		if #survivors <= 0 or #survivors == 0 then
			outcome = "all-players-died"
			break
		end

		if i <= 0 or i == 0 then
			outcome = "time-up"
			break
		end

		task.wait(1)
	end

	--local Table = {"Charles", "Richard", "Leopold"}
	--local newString = "Survivors: "..table.concat(Table, ", ")
	--print(newString)

	if outcome == "all-players-died" then
		Status.Value = "No Survivors Left"
	elseif outcome == "time-up" then
		Status.Value = "Survivors: "..table.concat(SurvivorsName, ", ")
	elseif outcome == "1-player-left" then
		Status.Value = "Survivor: "..SurvivorsName[1].."."
	end

end
#19

Each time you check for suvivors, you should reset the table.

	local survivors = {}
	local SurvivorsName = {}
	for i= timer, 0, -1 do
		survivors = {}
		SurvivorsName = {}
		for i, player in pairs(PLAYERS:GetPlayers()) do
			if player:FindFirstChild("Alive") then
				table.insert(survivors, player)
				table.insert(SurvivorsName, player.Name)
			end
		end
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#20

Here’s the fully updated script. I fixed some minor stuff

function Round.StartRound(timer)
	local outcome
	local survivors = {}

	for i= timer, 0, -1 do
		survivors = {}
		for i, player in pairs(PLAYERS:GetPlayers()) do
			if player:FindFirstChild("Alive") then
				table.insert(survivors, player)
			end
		end
		Status.Value = toms(i)
		--if #survivors <= 1 then
		--	outcome = "1-player-left"
		--	break
		--end

		if #survivors == 0 then
			outcome = "all-players-died"
			break
		end

		if i == 0 then
			outcome = "time-up"
			break
		end

		task.wait(1)
	end

	if outcome == "all-players-died" then
		Status.Value = "No Survivors Left"
	elseif outcome == "time-up" then
		local WinnerNames = {}
		for i, player in pairs(survivors) do
			table.insert(WinnerNames,player.Name)
		end
		Status.Value = "Survivors: "..table.concat(WinnerNames, ", ")
	elseif outcome == "1-player-left" then
		Status.Value = "Survivor: "..SurvivorsName[1].."."
	end
end
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