WoW:API UnitName

UnitName - Documentation by octon

Synopsis

Returns the name of the specified unit.

name = UnitName("unit")

Arguments

("unit")

unit

String - The UnitId to query (e.g. "player", "party2", "pet", "target" etc.)

Returns

name

name

String - The name of the specified unit.

Example

local playerName = UnitName("player");
ChatFrame1:AddMessage('Hi my name is: ' .. playerName);

Result

Prints the player's name to the chat frame. e.g.

Hi my name is: Octon

Details

UnitName("player") (or any other unit) will return "Unknown Entity" (Actually the value of the UNKNOWNOBJECT global) if called before the unit in question has been fully loaded into the world.

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