get the group the unit is in

[blizzcon]

Does such a function exist? or some other solution?

 

[Uncle]

You can check if a Unit Group contains a unit but there's no way natively to get a unit's "group" seeing as how it can belong to any number of Unit Groups.

A solution would be to link the Unit Group to the Unit using a Unit Indexer or Hashtable.

Then you'll always have a reference to the Unit Group as long as you have a reference to it's linked Unit.

Unit Indexer example of linking and then destroying a Unit Group:

• Set Variable CV = Custom value of some unit
• Set Variable LinkedGroup[CV] = Some existing Unit Group
• Custom script: DestroyGroup( udg_LinkedGroup[udg_CV] )

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