WoW:API type
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Native Lua statement:
This function returns the type of variable was passed to it.
var = type(arg1);
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".