<function name="TypeID" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Gets the associated type ID of the variable. Unlike <page>Global.type</page>, this does not work with <page>no value</page> - an argument must be provided. <warning>This will return `TYPE_TABLE` for <page>Color</page> objects.</warning>⤶ <warning>All subclasses of <page>Entity</page> will return `TYPE_ENTITY`.</warning> <bug request="1120">This returns garbage for _LOADLIB objects.</bug> <warning>This will return `TYPE_TABLE` for <page>Color</page> objects.⤶ ⤶ All subclasses of <page>Entity</page> will return `TYPE_ENTITY`.</warning> ⤶ <bug request="1120">This returns garbage for _LOADLIB objects.</bug> <bug request="1459">This returns `TYPE_NIL` for <page>proto</page>s.</bug> </description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="variable" type="any">The variable to get the type ID of.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="number">The type ID of the variable. See the <page>Enums/TYPE</page>.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Check the variable return on a few types.</description> <code> MsgN( TypeID( "Hello" ) ) MsgN( TypeID( function( ) end ) ) MsgN( TypeID( { } ) ) MsgN( TypeID( 80 ) ) MsgN( TypeID( false ) ) </code> <output> ``` 4 (TYPE_STRING) 6 (TYPE_FUNCTION) 5 (TYPE_TABLE) 3 (TYPE_NUMBER) 1 (TYPE_BOOL) ``` </output> </example> <example> <description>Show output of a <page>vararg</page>.</description> <code> -- This should output whatever you put in the first argument. local function Example( ... ) MsgN( TypeID( ... ) ) end Example( 1, "Hello" ) -- TYPE_NUMBER Example( "Hello", 1 ) -- TYPE_STRING -- This should output the table of data in a vararg. local function Example2( ... ) for k,v in pairs( { ... } ) do MsgN( TypeID( v ) ) end end Example2( "Hello", 1, { } ) -- TYPE_STRING, TYPE_NUMBER, TYPE_TABLE </code> <output> ``` 3 (TYPE_NUMBER) 4 (TYPE_STRING) 4 (TYPE_STRING) 3 (TYPE_NUMBER) 5 (TYPE_TABLE) ``` </output> </example>