Copying presence name from editbox

[Lombra]

I have a feeling there's no way around this, and I'm aware the special nature of presence names, but:

If you insert a BNet presence name into an editbox, it looks alright, but when you copy it and paste it somewhere, you get some of the magic string as well, like so: |Kf349|kActualName|k
I realise I'm not gonna be able to change what actually gets copied to the clipboard.

For a chat copying feature.

[Phanx]

Not possible. Real names are not accessible to addons, period. If a workaround was ever discovered, Blizzard would patch it as soon as they became aware of it.

However, what you can do is extract the presenceID from the link, pass that to BNGetFriendInfoByID to get the friend's BattleTag (it's the third return) and replace the "magic characters" in the link with the BattleTag for copying:

local presenceID = tonumber(string.match(LINK_GOES_HERE, "|K[a-z](%d+)"))
local _, _, battleTag = BNGetFriendInfoByID(presenceID)
local displayTag = string.match(battleTag, "^(.+)#")

The above will remove the numbers from the BattleTag, so "Somebody#1234" becomes just "Somebody", but if you'd rather show the whole thing just leave off the last line.