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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.

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“val = math.random([l [, u]]); val = random([l [, u]]); The functions math.random and...
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