Retrieves the id and the name from a specific channel.
id, name = GetChannelName(id);
- Arguments
- (Number id or String id)
- id
- The id of the channel you want to query, either as a number (1) or as a string ("1"). It seems that ("Trade") also works.
- Returns
- id
- a number containing the id of the channel, e.g. 2, or 0 if the channel is not found
- name
- a string containing the name of the channel, e.g. "Trade - Stormwind", or nil if the channel is not found.
- Important
If the channel argument is the channel name (ie "testchan1"), then the returned channel name is a nil value.
If the channel argument is the channel number (ie 6 or "6"), then the returned channel name is correct.
The channel id returns correctly in both cases.
- Example
-- Check if the specific channel exists
myChannel = 1;
id, name = GetChannelName(myChannel);
if (not id == 0 and name ~= nil) then
SendChatMessage("This is just a test.", "CHANNEL", nil, myChannel);
end
- Result
Checks if the channel with id stored in myChannel exists and in this case sends the text "This is just a test" to it.
- Description
- Retrieves the name from a specific channel.
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