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Detect if input is number or name

Started by tfoote, 06 July 2012 - 09:31 PM

tfoote #1

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:31 PM

Can you detect if an input such as


x =  io.read()

is a number or a word

MysticT #2

1604 posts

Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:33 PM

You can detect if it's a number or not like this:


local input = read() -- get the input, doesn't really matter how
if tonumber(input) ~= nil then
  -- the input is a number
else
  -- the input is a word
end