Getting player's name in chat

[Humility]

Using the OnPlayerChat hook, is there a way to compare the message with all the current player's names and then bind the certain player ( the one that was said ) to a variable ( ply2, something like that ) ?

[ARitz Cracker]

player:Nick() Get's their steam nickname
player:SteamID() Get's their steam ID

I like to use SteamIDs when binding a player to a feature because those are constant.

[Humility]

[QUOTE=LegoGuy;42201310]player:Nick() Get's their steam nickname
player:SteamID() Get's their steam ID

I like to use SteamIDs when binding a player to a feature because those are constant.[/QUOTE]

Right. Is there a way to make it bind to a variable that points to a player ( somewhat reversed process )

Basically, I want to make it so that when someone says another player's name, the player who's name was said is bound to a variable, like ply2.

[Chessnut]

OnPlayerChat already passes a player. Look into function arguments.

[Humility]

[QUOTE=Chessnut;42204083]OnPlayerChat already passes a player. Look into function arguments.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I know. It passes the player who chats. I want to get the text he said ( function argument ) and compare that to all player names abd if it's a match with any, set that player as a second variable.

[Whiterabbit]

You do it exactly as you are describing it, do you need help with comparing the text they entered with the other players names?

You can get all the players using player.GetAll()
You can loop through that using for ... in pairs(...) do
If you want an exact comparison you can do ==, or for partial matches use string.find

[lua]
--Completely untested code, example only, may have errors

local function FindPlayerByName( searchFor )
local found = {} --a table with all matching players

for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do --loop all players
local pname = v:Nick() --get their name
if string.find(pname, searchFor) then
--their name contains the text we entered, add them to our found list
table.insert(found, v)
end
end

if #found==1 then --we only found 1 person
return found[1] --return the person we found
else
--we found more than 1 matching person, dunno what to do now
return false
end
end

hook.Add("OnPlayerChat", function(ply,txt)

local searchFor = txt --we are searching for what they entered. this could modified to be, for example, only the second word they typed, etc
local targetPly = FindPlayerByName(searchFor)

if targetPly then
print("Found ", targetPly)
else
print("Couldn't match", searchFor, "to a player")
end

end)

[/lua]

[Humility]

[QUOTE=wh1t3rabbit;42207104]You do it exactly as you are describing it, do you need help with comparing the text they entered with the other players names?

You can get all the players using player.GetAll()
You can loop through that using for ... in pairs(...) do
If you want an exact comparison you can do ==, or for partial matches use string.find

[lua]
--Completely untested code, example only, may have errors

local function FindPlayerByName( searchFor )
local found = {} --a table with all matching players

for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do --loop all players
local pname = v:Nick() --get their name
if string.find(pname, searchFor) then
--their name contains the text we entered, add them to our found list
table.insert(found, v)
end
end

if #found==1 then --we only found 1 person
return found[1] --return the person we found
else
--we found more than 1 matching person, dunno what to do now
return false
end
end

hook.Add("OnPlayerChat", function(ply,txt)

local searchFor = txt --we are searching for what they entered. this could modified to be, for example, only the second word they typed, etc
local targetPly = FindPlayerByName(searchFor)

if targetPly then
print("Found ", targetPly)
else
print("Couldn't match", searchFor, "to a player")
end

end)

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So, Found[1] would return only the player who's name was said?

[Marcuz]

Yes. Unless it found more players who said it. The number 1 signifies the first entry in the array.

[Humility]

[QUOTE=Flamingsword;42210276]Yes. Unless it found more players who said it. The number 1 signifies the first entry in the array.[/QUOTE]

Thank you!