What does this mean?

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Hello. I saw this and was wondering what this means, but I didn’t find anything on the forum.

function ok(name:string?)

end

Thanks for reading, I appreciate a reply

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It’s basically just type-casting. You’re telling the script that what is given in that paramter must be a string, it’s typically use if you use the --!strict compiling method, example

--!strict

function ok(name:string?)

end

ok("Test") -- This is fine
ok(1) -- this would tell you that number could not be converted to string

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By default you would get that unless you add --!strict at the start of your script. It is not really needed to use type-casting yet, but if you want to, you can as it may prove to help out if you run into issues, such as giving it the wrong type it expected

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Oh, ok. I wish it actually broke the code so we don’t have to make if-statements every time. Well, thanks for your answer!

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Anytime! If you have anymore issues don’t be afraid to make another post!

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