How to get player element from his partial name?

[pro-mos]

I know about the function getPlayerFromName but it requires to enter the full name of player.

How can i get player name when i give the function only a part from name or a middle part in his name?

[SpecT]

function getPlayerFromNamePart ( name ) 
    if ( name ) then  
        for _, player in ipairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
            local name_ = getPlayerName ( player ):gsub ( "#%x%x%x%x%x%x", "" ):lower ( ) 
            if name_:find ( tostring ( name ):lower ( ), 1, true ) then 
                return player  
            end 
        end 
    end 
end 

[pro-mos]

Thanks

[SpecT]

You are welcome!