ESODecoded

GetRawUnitName

ESO Lua API function — used by 104 of the 3,030 addons we indexed (combined 22,561,179 downloads). Signature from the official ESOUIDocumentation.txt, API version 101050.

Official signature

GetRawUnitName(string unitTag)

Returns: string rawName

Real usage — from Tamriel Trade Centre

function TamrielTradeCentre:GetCurrentKioskID()
	local npcName = zo_strformat(SI_UNIT_NAME, GetRawUnitName("interact"))
	npcName = string.lower(npcName)

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

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