Get name from displayname... HELP!

so I've got this code here: http://pastie.org/2544512

As far a i know it should work, but it does not...

Why, Why!, WHY!!!?

 

Does the display name have colors? If it does you won't be able to type it in properly.

 

Yeah. There's invisible symbols that looks like this: §
After the symbol there's a letter or number (0-9a-f) that give text the color. You'll probably want to get rid of all those sequences.

 

Yup, @nisovin is right. Try to strip the display name of colors and then using equals.

Code:

            String dname = ChatColor.stripColor(p.getDisplayName());
            if (dname.equalsIgnoreCase(args[0])) {
                sender.sendMessage(dname + " is " + p.getName());
                return true;
            }

Or you can use contains on the 'to lower cased' strings.

Code:

public static boolean match(String value, String comparer) {
    value = value.toLowerCase();
    comparer = comparer.toLowerCase();
    return value.contains(comparer);
}

 

Ooh, I didn't know about stripColor.
Learn somethin' new every day, eh?

 

It basically does this:

Code:

return input.replaceAll("(?i)\u00A7[0-F]", "");

No idea how it works, but it works.

 

string patterns is one of the great mysteries of java