So i want to do an if statement that cheks if a varibal doesnt = nothing, but my code wont worke and dosnt give me a error message
#How do i make an if statement with the conditon that something does = nothing
elder fox
wanton mason
```
if variable then
-- do stuff
end
```
elder fox
yeah but that doesnt check if the varabel is empty
errant citrus
yeah but that doesnt check if the varabel is empty
what is your empty variable? is it nil or something like ""?
elder fox
so maby i wrote my question wrong but i have a text box and the text of the text box gets put into a string and i want to check if its empty
errant citrus
```
if variable then
-- do stuff
end
```
So then you are looking for an empty string, then you can just do the if statement suggest here but check if its equal to "" (<-- two quotation marks)
if that doesnt work then you can also check to see if its equal to nil
but either of those should work
elder fox
both time this comes out
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errant citrus
remove not and do ~= instead
its a unrelated suggestion to how you are doing "not equal to"
elder fox
ok ty sm