Editing WoW:ItemLink (section)

=== Printing links for debug ===

Printing out the contents of an item link is perhaps not so obvious; displaying it anywhere in-game will just show you a clickable link. Reformat it slightly to ruin the [[UI Escape Sequences|escape sequences]] and you'll see what it really looks like:

 link = [[API GetContainerItemLink|GetContainerItemLink]](0, 1);
 printable = [[API gsub|gsub]](link, "\124", "\124\124");
 ChatFrame1:AddMessage("Here's what it really looks like: \"" .. printable .. "\"");

"124" is the ascii value of the "|" character. If you are writing this in a regular .lua file, feel free to go ahead and just use "|" and "||". However, if you're typing it in an in-game editor, it's better to use the ascii code escape to avoid problems.