ESODecoded

AreUnitsEqual

ESO Lua API function — used by 81 of the 3,030 addons we indexed (combined 35,524,957 downloads). Signature from the official ESOUIDocumentation.txt, API version 101050.

Official signature

AreUnitsEqual(string unitTag, string secondUnitTag)

Returns: bool areEqual

Real usage — from LibCombat


	if unitTag and zo_strsub(unitTag, 1, 5) == "group" and AreUnitsEqual(unitTag, "player") then
		return

Short excerpt from the shipping addon LibCombatits ESOUI page; the code belongs to its author. Shown because documentation without a working example is half a reference.

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