<function name="FindByClass" parent="ents" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Gets all entities with the given class, supports wildcards. This works internally by iterating over <page>ents.GetAll</page>. ents.FindByClass is always faster than <page>ents.GetAll</page> or <page>ents.Iterator</page>(read the notes). ⤶ <note>Asterisks (*) are the only wildcard supported.</note>⤶ <note>This function returns a sequential table, meaning it should be looped with <page>Global.ipairs</page> instead of <page>Global.pairs</page> for efficiency reasons.</note>⤶ <note><page>ents.Iterator</page> is faster than <page>ents.GetAll</page> if it has already been used thanks to its caching/refresh system.</note>⤶ Gets all entities with the given class, supports wildcards. ⤶ This function returns a sequential table, meaning it should be looped with <page>Global.ipairs</page> instead of <page>Global.pairs</page> for efficiency reasons.⤶ ⤶ This works internally by iterating over <page>ents.GetAll</page>. `ents.FindByClass` is always faster than <page>ents.GetAll</page> or <page>ents.Iterator</page>.⤶ </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="class" type="string">The class of the entities to find.</arg>⤶ <arg name="class" type="string">The class of the entities to find, supports wildcards.⤶ ⤶ Asterisks (`*`) are the only wildcard supported.⤶ </arg>⤶ </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="table">A table containing all found entities</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Prints the location of every prop on the map.</description> <code> for k, v in ipairs( ents.FindByClass( "prop_*" ) ) do print( v:GetPos() ) end </code> <output> The location of each prop on the map. In gm_construct, the output might be as follows: ``` -2936.288818 -1376.545532 -73.852913 -2943.928467 -1375.800171 -84.964996 -2932.637695 -1288.051636 -76.791924 -2064.000000 -183.000000 -179.216003 -2384.000000 -183.000000 -179.216003 -2704.000000 -183.000000 -179.216003 -1744.000000 -183.000000 -179.216003 -1424.000000 -183.000000 -179.216003 -3019.895020 -1095.824829 -78.900757 ``` </output> </example>