[sirinsidiator]

Wouldn't something like this work in any language?

local allowedItemType = {
    [ITEMTYPE_GLYPH_WEAPON] = true,
    [ITEMTYPE_GLYPH_ARMOR] = true,
    [ITEMTYPE_GLYPH_JEWELRY] = true,
}
local function GetItemLinkGlyphPrefix(link)
    if(not allowedItemType[GetItemLinkItemType(link)]) then return end
    -- get the base name of the glyph
    local data = {zo_strsplit(":", link)}
    data[4], data[5] = 0, 0 -- at quality and level 0 there is no prefix
    local baseName = zo_strformat("<<t:1>>", GetItemLinkName(table.concat(data, ":")))
    -- remove the base name from the link
    local name = zo_strformat("<<t:1>>", GetItemLinkName(link))
    return name:gsub(" " .. baseName, "")
end
 
local prefix = GetItemLinkGlyphPrefix(link)