GetRaidRosterInfo() retuning nil

[Spawnova]

My problem is GetRaidRosterInfo() role argument is returning nil while name returns correct

local name,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,role = GetRaidRosterInfo(units)

my full code looks like so:

local currentMembers = GetNumGroupMembers()
print("checked roster for: " .. currentMembers)
for units = 1, currentMembers do
	local name,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,role = GetRaidRosterInfo(units)
	print(role)
end

[Dridzt]

Is a main tank /assist set?

Where you maybe looking to check the 12th return and not the 10th?

[Spawnova]

At the moment I'm just trying to get it to print the role of the current raid member in the loop and as such i dont have either set

The 10th argument is listed as role, I don't believe there is a 12th

[Dridzt]

I'm pretty sure the 10th return of GetRaidRosterInfo() refers to maintank and mainassist, not role in the general sense.

Maybe you had UnitGroupRolesAssigned() in mind?

Also according to Wowpedia they've added a 12th return to GetRaidRosterInfo() with combatrole which is what you're probably after.

[Spawnova]

Ok, You are right, i was looking at older documentation from another site looks like that solved my problems thank you =)

Also the name returns as such: <name> - <server>
Is there anyway to get just the name?

[p3lim]

name:gsub('%-[^|]+', '')

[Spawnova]

Works perfectly thank you

[Phanx]

name:match("[^%-]+") would also work, and I think string.match is faster than string.gsub.

[p3lim]

Probably, I was just copypasting my solution for chat.