WoW API: GetQuestLogLeaderBoard

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This function returns up to 3 values:

local desc, type, done = GetQuestLogLeaderBoard(i, [questID])

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Arguments

i

Index of the quests objective (see GetNumQuestLeaderBoards() ).

questID

Identifier of the quest in the quest log. If not provided, default to the currently selected Quest, via SelectQuestLogEntry().

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Return values

desc

String - The text description of the objective, like: "Kill foo: 0/3"

type

String - could be the following things: "item", "object", "monster", "reputation", or "event".

done

Boolean - nil if this sub objective is not completed yet, else 1

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Useful examples

function GetLeaderBoardDetails (boardIndex,questIndex)
  local leaderboardTxt, itemType, isDone = GetQuestLogLeaderBoard (boardIndex,questIndex);
  local i, j, itemName, numItems, numNeeded = string.find(leaderboardTxt, "(.*):%s*([%d]+)%s*/%s*([%d]+)");
  return itemType, itemName, numItems, numNeeded, isDone;
end
-- returns eg. "monster", "Young Nightsaber slain", 1, 7, nil

Note: Only ever found one quest, Template:Quest that had an "object" objective.