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[tfoote]

Can you detect if an input such as

x =  io.read()

is a number or a word

[MysticT]

You can detect if it's a number or not like this:

local input = read() -- get the input, doesn't really matter how
if tonumber(input) ~= nil then
  -- the input is a number
else
  -- the input is a word
end