WoW:API GetChannelName
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").
- 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
- 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.