testing for variable types [SOLVED]

[HaggisMcHaggis]

Hi All,

I currently have a table that stores different variable types. Is there a way of testing what kind of variable is stored when looping through it? Eg In my table, I have 1 string, 1 number and another table. How would I go about doing this in LUA script?

[freezer]

you can test using a few lua functions...

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html/#pdf-tonumber

tonumber()
tostring()
type()


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[freezer]

hmmm, looks like you'll need to use:

http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/doc/api/string-toNumber

[Fraser]

LUA has "type" function, which returns a string containing the type of the passed var:

http://www.lua.org/pil/2.html

What you want to do is not possible in stonescript which is a subset of LUA. This may change in Shiva2.

You will have to use seperate tables for each type, or you will have to interleave types in a known order.

[HaggisMcHaggis]

Thanks for that I've solved it using different tables.