Get Player entity with playername

[Sodaplayer]

How would I get the player entity with his name or partial name as a string? -- Something like Expression 2's findPlayerByName()

[mcd1992]

player:Name() or :Nick() ?

I'm not sure what your wanting here...

[Sodaplayer]

I'm trying to get the player entity by inputting his name.

[yahan]

? Do you mean your trying to get a player name from an ent?

[eemmzz]

Loop through all the players (player.GetAll()) and use string.find to see if their name contains the imputed value.

Return the player entity if there is a match.

[Entoros]

[lua]local function FindPlayerByName(name)
for _,v in ipairs(player.GetAll()) do
if string.match(v:Name(),name) then return v end
end
end[/lua]

I always use that.

[Sodaplayer]

Thanks for the help.