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<function name="Either" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc">⤶ <description>An 'if then else'. This is `almost` equivalent to (`condition` and `truevar` or `falsevar`) in Lua. The difference is that if `truevar` evaluates to false, the plain Lua method stated would return `falsevar` regardless of `condition` whilst this function would take `condition` into account.</description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm>⤶ <file line="359-L362">lua/includes/util.lua</file>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="condition" type="any">The condition to check if true or false.</arg>⤶ <arg name="truevar" type="any">If the condition isn&#x27;t nil/false, returns this value.</arg>⤶ <arg name="falsevar" type="any">If the condition is nil/false, returns this value.</arg>⤶ </args>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="any">The result.</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>The following two `print` statements have identical results.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ local ply = Entity( 1 )⤶ print( "Player " .. Either( ply:IsAdmin(), "is", "is not" ) .. " an admin" )⤶ ⤶ print( "Player " .. ( ply:IsAdmin() and "is" or "is not" ) .. " an admin" )⤶ </code>⤶ <output>If Player 1 is admin, it will print "Player is an admin".</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>⤶ ⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Plain Lua alias version.</description>⤶ <code>⤶ print("You are: "..( LocalPlayer():Alive() and "alive" or "dead" ))⤶ ⤶ // conditional:⤶ ⤶ print( "Halflife? "..( (LocalPlayer():Health()==50) and "halflife" or "not halflife") )⤶ </code>⤶ <outputfixedwidth>Fixed width</outputfixedwidth>⤶ <output>⤶ You are alive⤶ ⤶ Halflife? not halflife⤶ </output>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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