API type

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Native Lua statement:

This function returns the type of variable was passed to it.

var = type(arg1);

Contents 1 Parameters 1.1 Arguments 1.2 Returns 2 Example 2.1 Result 3 Details

Parameters

Arguments

(arg1)

arg1 

Any - arg1 can be any variable, String, Integer, etc.

Returns

Returns

var

var 

String - Contains the type of variable was passed as the argument. ie. "String", "Number", etc.

Example

local a = "I am a string";
local b = 45;
local c = type(a);
local d = type(b);

Result

c = "string"
d = "number"

Details

This function is part of the core lua language.

Possible return values (all strings):

"nil", "number", "string", "boolean", "table", "function", "thread", and "userdata".

 

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This is a Lua function and documented as part of the World of Warcraft API