LUA Probabaly the most basic thing I am having a brain fart about - "something_*"

[Rako]

So basically, I am making a script for learning purposes - This script displays few things on the player's HUD when the mouse is over any entity that has any other class than "worldspawn" (Which is the world itself). I got the base up and running, now I am just filtering the entities that display actual stuff on the HUD. I am stuck on this part:

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(Pastebin because the website horribly formats the code I paste)

I am basically trying to "whitelist" any entity with class name starting(but ANY ending) on "k_printer_" I thought the "*" will finish the job for me, sadly, nope.

[SteppuFIN]

string.find and use ent:GetClass(). You are comparing entity to string and string cant have regex stuff.

[Rako]

Ah I've forgotten - the entity is actually the entity that LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace() gets -

entity = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace().Entity

How would I use the string.find? Can you post an quick example?

[bitches]

whitelisted = string.StartWith(LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace().Entity:GetClass(),"k_printer_")

or in longer form,

myent = LocalPlayer():GetEyeTrace().Entity
myclass = myent:GetClass()
whitelisted = string.StartWith(myclass,"k_printer_")

whistlisted is a true/false value, true if the entity is one of the printers

[Rako]

I've been fu*king around with the string.find for past hour - and then boom - you! Thank you! Problem solved

PS.: In the short form you've entered a space, it shouldn't be here.

Thank you both for answers, have a nice day and I'm tagging this as solved ;)