January 22, 20215 yr I was thinking, instead of writing something like if UnitBuff("player","Seal of Light") or UnitBuff("player","Seal of Wisdom") and so on.. Is it possible to do something likeif UnitBuff("player","Seal of"*) ? I did some google search and the "." is used to match any character (like when comparing some strings), but I don't see it working with string concatenation For example, in my case I should write something like if UnitBuff("player","Seal of"...) because ".." separates text from variables, and "." should be the "any character", but clearly this isn't the right way to do what I want to do. Any idea? Thanks!
January 22, 20215 yr UnitBuff doesn't allow for regex afaik. Just iterate all buffs and use string.match or w/e the Lua function is on each name to do a partial match. In Lua ".." concatenates 2 strings. If you want to use a "." in regex without it representing any character, you can escape it using "\"
January 22, 20215 yr Author Oh okay no problem. I will do the string.match, I just wanted to make the code more compact and easier, but I guess I have no choice! Thanks for the help as always @Matenia ?
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