I've been wondering how to use 'type' as I've seen people using it so much. For e.g:
if type then --Do something end
Looks like you're having trouble googling that yourself, let me do that for you.
Type Function
In Lua, there is a function called ‘type’ that enables us to know the type of the variable. Some examples are given in the following code.
print(type("What is my type")) --> string t = 10 print(type(5.8*t)) --> number print(type(true)) --> boolean print(type(print)) --> function print(type(nil)) --> nil print(type(type(ABC))) --> string