FindPlayer

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This function finds a player from an ID or part of the nick and returns the pointer to that player. If no player is found, null will be returned.

Syntax

FindPlayer can take 2 different lists of parameters. These are:

Player FindPlayer( int id )

Player FindPlayer( string name )

Arguments

• id - The ID of the player to be found
• name - The name (or part of it) of the player to be found

 
function onPlayerCommand( player, cmd, text )
{
	if ( cmd == "findplr" )
	{
		local plr;
 
		if ( ( text ) && ( IsNum( text ) ) ) plr = FindPlayer( text.tointeger() );
		else plr = FindPlayer( text.tointeger() );
 
		if ( plr ) MessagePlayer( "Found player: " + plr + "!", player );
		else MessagePlayer( "No player found.", player );
	}
}
 

This command will try and find the specified player.

Notes

The call onPlayerCommand was used in in this example. More info about this in the corresponding page.

Related Functions

• FindPlayer
• GetClosestPlayer
• Player.Alpha
• Player.Angle
• Player.Armour
• Player.Cash
• Player.Class
• Player.ClearWeapons
• Player.Colour
• Player.ColouredName
• Player.EnterVehicle
• Player.ExitVehicle
• Player.ForceToSpawnScreen
• Player.Frozen
• Player.GetBoundariesLower
• Player.GetBoundariesUpper
• Player.GetIgnored
• Player.Health
• Player.ID
• Player.IP
• Player.Immune
• Player.Island
• Player.LUID
• Player.Marker
• Player.MarkerScale
• Player.MarkerSprite
• Player.Muted
• Player.Name
• Player.Nametag
• Player.NametagColour
• Player.Ping
• Player.Pos
• Player.RemoveFromVehicle
• Player.RemoveLimb
• Player.Score
• Player.SetAnim
• Player.SetBoundaries
• Player.SetIgnored
• Player.SetIgnoredBy
• Player.SetVehicleEnterDoor
• Player.SetWeapon
• Player.Skin
• Player.Spawn
• Player.Spawned
• Player.Team
• Player.Train
• Player.Vehicle
• Player.VehicleSeat
• Player.Velocity
• Player.VirtualWorld
• Player.WantedLevel
• Player.Weapon
• Player.SetWeapon
• Player.WeaponAmmo
• Player.WeaponState