Block another characters (like ł,ć,ą etc..)

[rww]

Sorry for post here , but LU forum is a litte dead (there is more scripters etc... and lu too have squirrel lang, and some testers from lu is there).

I need function for block another characters (like ł,ą,ć,ż,ę,ó etc..). My server use /changenick cmd and some players bugged account with invalid characters.

I very very thanks for help. I very need this, but idk how to do it.

[.]

For names or commands? Usually VC:MP cleans the names automatically, although I don't know about the commands. However, if this behavior is different on LU then you must specify. This can be fixed with a regular expression scan for un-needed characters or maybe some other methods. But I need to know where you need this. (if I remember correctly we've had this discussion once)

[rww]

Nice, works, but how to unlock: ^ = [ ]  etc...

[Kratos_]

Actually It looks me a bit contradicting since the codes S.L.C posted will block all non-alphanumeric characters from your code . And now you're asking to unlock ^ = [ ] which ofcourse are non-alphanumeric . If LU is following the same deal with nickname characters as VC:MP does ,  I mean changing everything unusual to underscore .  Then I would recommend to set a key ( a master password for changing an individual's nicknames ) into the new account & then transfer your account from previous one using this .
This way you will let the server to decide what to block without coding anything . You should wait for a LU individual for more refined response.

[Thijn]

What you could try is loop through all characters and check if the ascii value is okay. Something like this:

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local nick = "Tést";
for( local i = 0; i < nick.len(); i++ ) {
print(nick[i]);
if ( nick[i] < 0 || nick[i] > 127 ) {
print("Found invalid character " + nick[i] + " at position " + i);
}
}


[EK.IceFlake]

What you could try is loop through all characters and check if the ascii value is okay. Something like this:

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local nick = "Tést";
for( local i = 0; i < nick.len(); i++ ) {
print(nick[i]);
if ( nick[i] < 0 || nick[i] > 127 ) {
print("Found invalid character " + nick[i] + " at position " + i);
}
}


Better yet

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    local nick = "Tést";
    local newnik = "";
    for( local i = 0; i < nick.len(); i++ ) {
        if ( nick[i] >= 0 || nick[i] <= 127 ) newnik[i] = nick[i];
    }
    player.Name = newnik;
Which will result in Tst and remove all invalid characters. This isnt tested though, so beware...

[.]

Not quite the high performance approach but here you go:

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// Same as bellow except pre-assembled
local _allowed_chars = [
 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111,
 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86,
 88, 89, 90, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 91, 93, 123,
 125, 40, 41, 60, 62, 44, 46, 63, 59, 58
];

// This should be a static array like above
// to avoid parsing it every time in the function
local allowed = "";

allowed += "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz";
allowed += "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ";
allowed += "0123456789";
allowed += "[]{}()<>,.?;:";

function StrParse(s, f)
{
    // Could be cached as a pre-assembled global
    // if not changed at run-time (read above)
    local c = [];
    foreach (v in f) c.push(v);
   
    local a = [this, ""];
    // Actual filtering
    foreach (v in s) {
        if (c.find(v) != null) {
            a.push(v);
            a[1] += "%c";
        }
    }
   
    return ::format.acall(a);
}

// Let's give it a try
local name = StrParse("Y[o*]*<l^%)o$;293", allowed);

print(name);
Result after filtering:

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Y[o]<l)o;293
This could be implemented as a plugin function to speed things up

[rww]

Ok, thanks for help All works good