From the NannyMUD documentation

LAST CHANGE

2000-12-11

FUNCTION

NAME
        find_player - find a named player


SYNTAX
	object find_player(string name)

DESCRIPTION
	This function finds and returns the player object with the given
	`name'. 

	The argument `name' must be given in lowercase for this function
	to work.


SEE ALSO
        find_living in efun/object_related/find_living


SEE ALSO
        find_object in efun/object_related/find_object