Using a table for finding chat messages

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#1

I am making a game and it requires me to see if someone said something and if they said it then they lost health and points. I did it but I realized it would probably be more organized if I could do it with a table. However, my brain is the size of a peanut, and I can’t figure out how. If anyone could help that would be great. Ill supply more info if needed.

#2

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/Player/Chatted

local players = game:GetService("Players")

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
		if string.lower(message) == string.lower("") then --change expected message
			local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:wait()
			local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
			humanoid.Health -= 50
			--do other stuff if necessary
		end
	end)
end)
#3

You can use table.find() to achieve this, however this will only work if the player who chatted says exactly the same word. To fix this and make it vary more I would recommend mainly to learn how to use string.match() and string.lower() (Reference).

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Client = Players.LocalPlayer or Players:GetPropertyChangedSignal("LocalPlayer"):Wait()

local Words = {"Hello", "Bye"}

Client.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
	if table.find(Words, msg) then
		print(msg)
	end
end)
#4

Thank you, im really not the greatest at this. Helps a ton!

#5

Thank you very much! Very helpful