What am I doing wrong here?

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#1

Hi there,

I am attempting to make something where I can type a player’s name into a TextBox, and it would search to see if that particular player is in the game.

However, an error comes out of this whenever I try to search:
Line 5: attempt to call a userdata value

Here is the code: (This is inside of a localscript)

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	local name = script.Parent.Parent.enterName.Text
	print("searching for player "..name)
	
	if game.Players(name) == nil then
		print("player not found!")
	else
		print("player "..name.." was found!")
	end
end)

Any help would be appreciated!

#2

You’re calling the PlayerService as a function on the 5th line, as well as checking to see whether it’s nil (i.e. not present) when your following code wants it to be present:

game.Players(name)

You need to do the following:

if game.Players:FindFirstChild(name) then
--> Player found
else
--> Player not found
end
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#3

Thanks a lot! It worked. :slight_smile:

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