Editing Target selectors (section)

== Target selector variables ==

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|+ Summary of target selector variables
! Variable !! Selects
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| <code>@p</code> || the nearest player
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| <code>@r</code> || a random player
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| <code>@a</code> || all players
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| <code>@e</code> || all entities
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| <code>@s</code> || the entity executing the command
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| <code>@c</code> || the player's agent{{only|education}}
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| <code>@v</code> || all agents{{only|education}}
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| <code>@initiator</code> || the player who clicks an [[NPC]] [[dialogue]] button{{only|bedrock|education|short=1}}
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A target selector variable identifies the broad category of targets to select. There are five (six {{in|bedrock}}, eight {{in|edu}}) variables:

; <code>@p</code>

: Selects the nearest player from the command's execution. If there are multiple nearest players, caused by them being precisely the same distance away, the player who most recently joined the server is selected.

: {{IN|Bedrock}}, <code>@p</code> only selects players who are alive.

; <code>@r</code>

: Selects a random player.

: {{el|Bedrock}} can use <code>@r</code> to select non-player entities via the <code>type</code> selector argument; {{in|java}}, to select a random entity, use <code>@e[sort=random]</code> instead.
: {{IN|Bedrock}}, <code>@r</code> can only select entities who are alive.

; <code>@a</code>

: Selects every player, alive or not.

; <code>@e</code>

: Selects all alive entities (including players) in loaded chunks.

; <code>@s</code>

: Selects the entity (alive or not) that executed the command. It does not select anything if the command was run by a command block or server console.

; <code>@c</code>{{only|education}}

: Selects the player's agent only.

; <code>@v</code>{{only|education}}

: Selects all agents. Works only if more than one agent exists.

; <code>@initiator</code>{{only|bedrock}}

: Selects the player who interacts with a button in a JSON [[NPC]] [[dialogue]].