[Forlix]

I wrote this function to do the job:

PHP Code:

stock FindEntityByTargetname(const String:targetname[], const String:classname[])
{
  decl String:namebuf[32];
  new index = -1;
  namebuf[0] = '\0';
 
  while(strcmp(namebuf, targetname) != 0
    && (index = FindEntityByClassname(index, classname)) != -1)
    GetEntPropString(index, Prop_Data, "m_iName", namebuf, sizeof(namebuf));
 
  return(index);
} 


Should be pretty efficient.
However, I have a slight guess that StrEqual is faster than strcmp for checking if strings are equal, so if anyone can confirm this please, as I am too lazy to benchmark them
The function returns either the index of the first entity found by that targetname, or -1 if not found.

And of course this is also limited to entities that have an index, but it works well for stuff like physics objects or triggers...

[Fredd]

that's almost the same thing....non networked entities usually don't have an index that's the whole point of it.