I need some code to find the closest player to a thing, out of all the players in a multiplayer game. 
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potential = 0;
victim = GetPlayerThing(0);
while(potential < GetNumPlayers())
{
if(VectorDist(GetThingPos(thisthing), GetThingPos(GetPlayerThing(potential))) < VectorDist(GetThingPos(thisthing), GetThingPos(victim))) victim = GetPlayerThing(potential);
potential = potential + 1;
}