Type

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: (global)

Description

Returns the type of its only argument, coded as a string. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (string) = type(v) </source>

The possible results of this function are:

• "nil" (a string, not the value nil)
• "number"
• "string"
• "boolean"
• "table"
• "function"
• "thread"
• "userdata"

Parameters

v: (any) value to get type from

Return values

Returns (string) type of the variable

Example

Checks if variable x is of type table <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> local x = {} if type(x) == "table" then print("type is table") else print("type is not table") end </source>

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