Difference between revisions of "Type values"

Revision as of 23:37, 1 November 2010

The lua type() function has fixed strings that it returns depending upon the type of value represented by its argument. These fixed strings are 'boolean', 'function', 'nil', 'number', 'string', 'table' (and not commonly seen in openeuo, 'userdata' and 'thread').

print(type(print))
print(type('A'))
print(type(1))
print(type({}))
print(type(nil))
local b = 6
print(type(b))
print(type(false))

--> 'function'
--> 'string'
--> 'number'
--> 'table'
--> 'nil'
--> 'number'
--> 'boolean'

See Also

• false

• true

• nil

• type