capture an event arg1

[sirspikey]

I'm using the CHAT_MSG_SPELL_PERIODIC_CREATURE_BUFFS and I want my little function here to compare the arg1 from the event (wich returns: *some1 gains: *something") with the table of spells. And when it finds a spell it will add 1 to M

it works if I type the string directly in the code string.find("Restoration",spel) or make a_buff="Restoration" -BUT it don't work ingame?!?! I debugged it with DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(arg1) to se if the event really return a string, and it did

M=0

DispellType_Magic{
	"Mighty Rage",
	"Greater Dreamless Sleep",
	"Living Free Action",
	"Major Dreamless Sleep",
	"Restoration"
        }


  if (event~="CHAT_MSG_SPELL_AURA_GONE_OTHER") then 
    a_buff=arg1
    for i,spell in ipairs(DispellType_Magic) do
        a=string.find(a_buff,spell)
        if (a~= nil) then M=M+1; break;
        end
    end
 
  end

(this is not the whole code)

Where do I go wrong?!?!

[Riraito]

I had a very similar problem awhile back, where it worked fine manually, but didn't work otherwise, and debugging it showed it working right, my problem was that I had two different 'arg1's from 2 different places, not sure if thats the problem here, but maybe you should check that, just a thought