Saving Achievement List with ID's to Variable

[Drshow]

i am just trying to parse a search string and save the results to a variable. Anyone proof read my code n correct me, please lol.
variable name = AchievID
so far it just saves x,n not the actual search results.

local max,search=5000,"gold"; 
 for x=1,max do 
  local _,n = GetAchievementInfo(x) 
   if n then 
    if string.find(n,search) then 
    print(x,n) 
    AchievID = ("x,n") 
    end 
   end 
end

[Seerah]

I'm assuming you want to save the search results to the AchievID variable?

Right now, the variable is just "x,n" because you're assigning the string "x,n" to that variable.

AchievID = ("x,n")

should be

AchievID = (x..","..n)

This will save the value of x and the value of n separated by a comma. The two dots (..) concatenate everything together.

[Drshow]

Originally Posted by Seerah I'm assuming you want to save the search results to the AchievID variable? Right now, the variable is just "x,n" because you're assigning the string "x,n" to that variable. AchievID = ("x,n") should be AchievID = (x..","..n) This will save the value of x and the value of n separated by a comma. The two dots (..) concatenate everything together.

OMG Seerah, i just had a duh moment lol. TY so much. I was actually way off on how to parse that table with as little code as possible.

I spent all night trolling on Curse with another trying to get this to work, but what we did was

local AchievementLister = {}
AchievID = {} -- account variables
AchievementLister.frame = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, UIParent)
SLASH_ACHIEVEMENTLISTER1 = "/alister"
SLASH_ACHIEVEMENTLISTER2 = "/achievementlister"
SlashCmdList[ "ACHIEVEMENTLISTER" ] = function() AchievementLister:runSlash() end
function AchievementLister:runSlash()
   local max = 5000
   local count = 1
   for x=1,max do
      local _,name = GetAchievementInfo(x)
      if name then
         AchievID[ count ] = x .. " - " .. name
         count=count+1
      end
   end
end

nothing fancy it got the job done. It parsed in count all Achievements that have a space character in its string. Then saved count to a variable. I posted the full list on curseforge and am trying to make a few minutes to post here too, served myself as a good reference.

http://forums.curseforge.com/showthread.php?t=17344

the list is on WoWwiki @ http://www.wowwiki.com/Complete_list...evement_ID%27s search page in IE works great.