[stjobe]

Originally Posted by Roupine You could wrap it in {} to get a table and index it from there: local buffInfo = {GetUnitBuffInfo("player",1)}

I could, but that would still leave nine unnecessary table entries.

The correct way (which I just learned and want to share) of getting the last value from GetUnitBuffInfo() is using select():

local lastValue = select(10, GetUnitBuffInfo("player", 1))

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html:

select (index, ···) If index is a number, returns all arguments after argument number index. Otherwise, index must be the string "#", and select returns the total number of extra arguments it received.

Here's an example showing the difference:

function manyReturns()
    return "alfa", "beta", "gamma"
end
 
t = {manyReturns()}
 
for k,v in pairs(t) do
    print(k..": "..v)
end
 
v = select("#", manyReturns())
print(v)
 
r = select(v, manyReturns())
print(r)

Which outputs:

1: alfa
2: beta
3: gamma
3
gamma

Not so messy after all