Simple LUA issues

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I’m starting to make a custom administration mod for my server, because apparently all of them are broken and dysfunctional. (Exsto, Evolve, and ULX not loading commands in)
This is the code I decided to start with, as most of the other commands would revolve around findplayer(name) and updatePlayerList().


plist=player.GetAll()
function findplayer(name)
updatePlayerList()
table.foreach(plist,function(k,v) if v:GetName()==name then return v end end)
print("could not find player with given name "..name.." !")
end
function updatePlayerList()
	plist=player.GetAll()
end
function spawn(player,command,args)
	findplayer(args[1]):Spawn()
	print("attempted to spawn player ".. args[1])
end
concommand.Add("_spawn",spawn)

However, when I try to execute both
_spawn “Username”
and
_spawn Username
My code returns that it could not find the player specified.
The username matches exactly what it should have been, is there something wrong with my findplayer()?

Fixed!
I was using table.foreach(), which doesn’t appear to work.
using the for k,v in pairs(plist) worked perfectly.

#2

you need to fix your find player function aswell as it doesnt return anything if it doesnt find the player, yet you are calling a userdata method on it.

if you enter in a name which doesnt match to a player you will get errors.

if you make it return false then check if its false when you call it, it should work for anything.