How do I get the first three letters of a name? - Printable Version

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How do I get the first three letters of a name? - linuxthefish - 08.06.2011

How do I get the first three letters of a name exluding clantag? Thanks.

[FOX]Gonad > Gon
Finlay > Fin
linuxthefish > lin
[FOX]FriedEGG > Fri

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Re: How do I get the first three letters of a name? - Vince - 08.06.2011

https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/Strmid

Excluding clantags will be a little bit tricky, because you don't know what their excact length will be. You could use strfind to find the first occurance of ']' and use that as the start index for strmid (and index + 3 for the end). However, if someone with a name like ]]someone[[ joines, this won't work.

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Re: How do I get the first three letters of a name? - linuxthefish - 08.06.2011

Thanks

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