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Checking for Number or String?
I am making a script but I want it to check if the 'Value' entered is a number or a string. I am using
if script.Parent.TextBox.Text - 1 ~= nil then
This works great for a number. But when I enter text I get this:
if script.Parent.Insert.Text - 1 == nil then
'attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'Text' (a string value)' I need a more efficient way to detect whether it is a number or a string. Can anyone help?
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If a string can be turned into a number, then tonumber will return that number; if not it will return nil.
local number = tonumber(str);
if number then
print( number * 5 ); -- We can do math on it since it's a number
else
-- number is nil
print("You didn't enter a number")
end