something:IsA(string)?

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#1

First of all, hi!

I’m making a combat system which uses remote events, where I send informations to the server like:
The player pressed a button
Activate debounce in a player
etc…

The problem is that I use int. string and a lot of value types for this, and when I want, for example, compare 2 numbers but what is a string in that fire, it warns an error because you can’t compare a string and an int, if that makes sense.

Example of what I’m trying to say:

LocalScript

local event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").RemoteEvents.NormalStandClick
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gpe)
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
		event:FireServer(1)
	elseif input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q then
		event:FireServer("I am a string")
	end
end)

script

local event = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").RemoteEvents.NormalStandClick

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, what)
	if what <= 3 then --this gives error because sometimes what = string sometimes what = int
		print("Hello")
	elseif what == "I am a string" then
		print(what)
	end
	
end)

So, is there any way to know if what is a string or what is an int?

Thanks for reading.

#2

Use the ‘typeof’ function. It returns the type of the value, for example

typeof('Hi') -- string
typeof(1) -- number
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