Saving and calling character names?

[Whunkle]

What I'm looking to do is save a characters name from a who search using the variable (charname). I have EVERYTHING working, the who search, etc, but can't figure out how to STORE the /who search and call it into my script.

Basically, I want to save character names from a /who search and check to see if i've seen them before or not. Any help would be appreciated. I'm new to the forums so thanks again!

[Zwacky]

just create once a table, either as local or as global (but then use a unique table name). register the "WHO_LIST_UPDATE" event and then compare the returned /who names with the names in your table and save all /who names into your table for the next /who command.

local myUniqueTableNames = {}

local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
f:SetScript("WHO_LIST_UPDATE", function()
    local _, n = GetNumWhoResults()
    for i = 1, n do
        -- comparing stuff (GetWhoInfo(index)) etc.
    end
end

this should suffice.