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Added in 5.4.0 / 1.13.2

Returns a table of realm names for auto-completion.

realmNames = GetAutoCompleteRealms([realmNames])

Arguments

realmNames

table? - If a table is provided, it will be populated with realm names; otherwise, a new table will be created.

Returns

realmNames

table - An array of realm names the player can interact with through Connected Realms. Realm names will be in normalized format without spaces or hyphens (see GetNormalizedRealmName).

Details

• Certain characters are removed from realm names, most notably Space and - while others remain, such as ' and variants of Latin letters (e.g. umlauts and accented letters)
• The supplied table is not wiped; only the array keys needed to return the result are modified.
• May not be available at load time until PLAYER_LOGIN (i.e. found to not work during VARIABLES_LOADED)

Patch changes

Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Added.