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What is the difference between else and elseif?
I'm watching some tutorials and they use elseif, and I don't know what it is, because they don't explain it, and I can't find tutorials that explain what is elseif used for.
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The simple answer is that the else block will run if no other blocks ran and a elseif block will be evaluated if the previous did not run.
Now some examples ........
using else
1 | local run = true |
2 |
3 | if run then |
4 | print('runs only if truthy') |
5 | else |
6 | print('runs if the above did not run') |
7 | end |
using elseif
01 | local run = true |
02 | local run2 = true |
03 | local run3 = true |
04 |
05 | if run then |
06 | print('run first') |
07 | elseif run2 then |
08 | print('the above did not run. run must be falsy') |
09 | elseif run3 then |
10 | print('you can chain as many as you want but only the first one that evaluate to true will run') |
11 | else |
12 | print('none of the above ran') |
13 | end |
The above are just some testing setups you can run and turn the variable from true to false.
Also take a look at how Lua treats type as either true or false her
I hope this helps. Please comment if you have any other questions about this code.
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You made a spelling mistake^•^. I accepted this answer because this give’s an explanation of the question asked with a following example Ziffixture 6913 — 5y