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The World of Warcraft API uses the Lua scripting language for nearly all of its User Interface (FrameXML). When developing addons, this is also the language that you use. This category lists native Lua functions as well as standard Lua library functions, documented as part of the World of Warcraft API.

“Lua (from the Portuguese word for moon) is the scripting language used by World of Warcraft for Inte
Lua
“Addons in World of Warcraft share a single execution environment. As a result, all Addons have acces
Lua variable scoping
“Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a relatively new concept (compared to procedural programing) wh
Object-oriented programming
“string.format(formatstring, e1, e2, ...) format(formatstring, e1, e2, ...) Create a formatted string
API format
“string.find(s, pattern [, init [, plain]]) strfind(s, pattern [, init [, plain]]) Find the first occ
API strfind
“Used to traverse a list. This function is usually used to capture the arguments passed to an ellipsi
API select
“val = math.random([l [, u]]); val = random([l [, u]]); The range [0,1) of math.random is exclusive,
API random
“From TableLibraryTutorial of lua-users.org. table.getn(table) getn(table) This is used to determine
API getn
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