string.find issues..

[KevinnTCG]

[lua]function test(Nick)
for k, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
print(string.lower(v:Nick()))
print(string.lower(Nick))
if(string.find(string.lower(v:Nick()), string.lower(Nick)) == 1) then
return v
end
end
return false
end[/lua]

That function runs...the print output is: (btw my ign is [TRUE]Kevin)

[true]kevin (this one is a print(Args[1]) in the main function.)
[true]kevin
[true]kevin

but returns false

I am assuming the string.find is having trouble with the brackets considering everyone in the game without them can be attacked with the command. I don't know anything about string.find or really any string commands so if there is something I can do to make this work that would be nice. According to what I read on the wiki about string.find this should be returning true on the if statement, resulting in v being the player in question..

[JetBoom]

string.find uses patterns, Lua's version of regex. You need to set the 3rd and 4th argument for it to use plain text.

string.find(haystack, needle, 1, true)

Where 1 is the start index and true means don't use patterns. You also don't have to test for == 1, you can simply use ~= nil or just nothing at all.

It also looks like you could just use
string.sub(pl:Name():lower(), 1, #Name) == Name:lower()
If what you're trying to do is match partial names.

[KevinnTCG]

Ah, seems to be working now, I tried that same thing, but thought that the boolean had to be set to false to not use patterns, and true to use them. Thanks