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Description:: Checks if given person is player. Returns true for headless clients as well.

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In some cases, the identity of certain player units might fail to propagate to other clients and the server, which causes isPlayer and getPlayerUID to incorrectly return false and "", respectively, where the affected units are not local.^[1] Therefore, beware of false negatives.
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Posted on 1 August, 2006
Kronzky: This is not the same as testing object == player, because in MP it tests for any player, not only for the local one. If object is a vehicle, the test is done for the vehicle commander.

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-| Checks if given person is [[player]]. Returns [[true]] for headless clients as well.  |= Description
+| Checks if given person is [[player]]. Returns [[true]] for headless clients as well.<br/><br/>
+{{warning | In some cases, the identity of certain player units might fail to propagate to other clients and the server, which causes [[isPlayer]] and [[getPlayerUID]] to incorrectly return <tt>[[false]]</tt> and <tt>""</tt>, respectively, where the affected units are [[not]] [[local]].<ref>https://github.com/michail-nikolaev/task-force-arma-3-radio/issues/1096</ref> Therefore, beware of false negatives.}} |= Description
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