[Paid assistance] Unit Party Number

[Soapbox]

Hello all, I am looking for someone that can assist me in developing a function that, simply, will just check which party group the unit I am checking is in.

I am using this as a means for Prayer of Healing, a spell that only hits units that art in the same party. There currently is no WoW API that supports this without indexing the raid.

function GroupNumber(unit)
    for i=1, GetNumGroupMembers() do
        local name, rank, subgroup = GetRaidRosterInfo(i)
        if name == UnitName(unit) then
            return "Group "..subgroup
        end
    end
end

I want something more like this, I just don't have the tool kit to make it work correctly

select(3,GetRaidRosterInfo(string.sub(tostring(unit), 5)))

Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated and the successful creation of it will be generously compensated.

[RedRussian]

So what if you try something like this?

function GroupNumber(unit)
   local GROUP_SIZE = 5
   for i = 1, 40 do
      if UnitIsUnit(unit, "raid"..i) then
         return math.ceil( i / GROUP_SIZE )
      end
   end
end

[Soapbox]

So what if you try something like this?

function GroupNumber(unit)
   local GROUP_SIZE = 5
   for i = 1, 40 do
      if UnitIsUnit(unit, "raid"..i) then
         return math.ceil( i / GROUP_SIZE )
      end
   end
end

Always returns 1. You're just returning 1 divided by 5 ceil. S regardless of which group im in it will just return 1

[RedRussian]

I didn't actually test the code in-game, but the point is to check whether the unit ID you're looking for refers to the i-th raider. math.ceil( i / 5 ) would return exactly the group number if such i is found. I'll give it a bit of testing later.

[Soapbox]

I didn't actually test the code in-game, but the point is to check whether the unit ID you're looking for refers to the i-th raider. math.ceil( i / 5 ) would return exactly the group number if such i is found. I'll give it a bit of testing later.

problem is the raider i will remain the same regardless of which group they are in. just because they are raid1 does not mean they are in the 1st group[. they can be in group 6. i got it figurted out tho i trhink

[RedRussian]

Ah, thanks for clarification. I thought that the "raid"..i guy must neccessarily occupy the i-th slot in the raid group.