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Originally Posted by Jochemd Nice tutorial, however I wouldn't use sscanf for such a thing. pawn Code: CMD:spec(playerid, params[]) {     new id = strlen( params );     if( isnull( params )) return SendClientMessage( playerid, -1, "Syntax Error: /spec [ID].");     if(! IsPlayerConnected( id )) return SendClientMessage( playerid, -1, "Syntax Error: /spec [ID].");     // Gah }

sscanf would be the best choice. 'u' specifier is names/ids. The other way of doing the same thing is;

pawn Code:

if(isnumeric(params))
{
    id = strval(params);
}
else
{
    new
        szName[MAX_PLAYER_NAME];
    id = INVALID_PLAYER_ID;
    
    for(new i=0; i < MAX_PLAYERS; ++i)
    {
        if(!IsPlayerConnected(i))continue;
        GetPlayerName(i, szName, MAX_PLAYER_NAME);
        if(!strcmp(szName, params))
        {
            id = i;
            break;
        }
    }
}

I prefer one sscanf line to that.