What typeof or type does?

[vini_R116 (Helium)]

I wanted to know, I didn’t find anything about these functions.

[caviarbro]

Try to search on developer.roblox.com

[heII_ish]

Ctrl + f

Lua Globals

Roblox Globals

[EmbatTheHybrid (Embat)]

What does type and typeof mean?

type and typeof basically just returns the type of something local text = "Test" print(type(text)) -- prints "string" print(typeof(text)) -- also prints "string" The only real difference between them is that typeof has more accuracy when trying to get the type of one of Roblox’s types, such as Vector3, as if you use type on a Vector3, it would return userdata I believe, whereas if you used typeof, it would return Vector3 Here are some pictures from the official roblox dev wiki that explain th…

The only difference between now and back then is that Vector3, after an update to them, now returns vector when using type on it

[RobotChip212]

Doing type(game) would return userdata, while doing typeof(game) would return Instance. They return the type of something, but it’s more recommended to use typeof.