[Help] Ellipsis Operator in LUA Scripting - Addon Backporting

[Alumian 5]

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on backporting an addon from TBC to Classic and the only issue I'm having at the moment is getting around the ellipsis operators. I understand that this operator is used so that a variable number of arguments may be parsed through a function, in this case the function is:

function mod:Report(fmt, ...)
	if EPGP.db.profile.report_channel ~= "NONE" then
		local msg = string.format(fmt, . . .)
		local str = "EPGP:"
		for _,s in pairs({strsplit(" ", msg)}) do
			if #str + #s >= 250 then
				SendChatMessage(str, EPGP.db.profile.report_channel)
				str = "EPGP:"
			end
			str = str .. " " .. s
		end
		SendChatMessage(str, EPGP.db.profile.report_channel)
	end
end

I understand that World of Warcraft 1.12.1 runs off LUA Version 5.0 (I think) and as such this functionality is not available.

Could someone please offer a suggestion on how to work around this?

 

Thanks

[Xyf 1]

Pack it in a table, like the ellipsis does:

call:

mod:Report("%s is = %d ",{"someVal",2})

function:

function mod:Report(fmt, arg)
    local test=string.format(fmt,unpack(arg))
    message(test)
end

[Alumian 5]

Sweet, thanks!