Banned Name List

Unity Engine
1

Hi people,

I’m working on a very simple networking game, but I want to add a feature where by if a player enters in an offensive name for their character, show a message that they can’t use that name.

So far I have…

private string[] bannedNames = new string[] {"Banned", "SoBanned"};

if(charName == bannedNames.ToString())
{
	Debug.LogError("no");
}
2 
private string[] bannedNames = new string[] {"Banned", "SoBanned"}; 

foreach(string badName in bannedNames){
     if(charName == badName.ToString())
     {
         Debug.LogError("no");
      }
}

to check charName against all names in bannedNames array

3

Thanks, works perfectly :slight_smile:

4

you shouldn’t have to ‘ToString’ badName, it’s already a string.

Also, you may want to do a ‘contains’ instead, and also to do it case insensitively (in that current technique we block Banned, but not BANNED).

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