Integer Data Type

Integer data types are used for numbers which have no decimal places – whole numbers only (positive or negative).

Integer is really of the Number data type, and in the LUA language, if a local is first an integer, then gets changed somehow, to a Real, it will have its data type changed (unlike other languages like C++).

Usually, this is used for counting, or a variable whole amout of something.

Example Code

function Test()
	-- Declare some integers
	local myinteger1 = 1
	local myinteger2 = -5
	local myinteger3 = -5

	-- Change an integer to a real
	local myinteger4 = 1
	myinteger4 = myinteger4 + 0.5
	-- myinteger4 is now equal to 1.5, a real number.
end

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