Schmidty15
Schmidty15

Reputation: 301

Determining if a number is odd or even in Lua

I need to compare a user inputed number to determine if it is odd or even. I am using Lua and so far I have no code... all i know is that i would like to use this in an if else statement formatted as such...

    if (number is even) then
        -block of code
    else
        -block of code
    end

any help or advice anyone can give would be great!

Upvotes: 15

Views: 29959

Answers (2)

Anton Kovalenko
Anton Kovalenko

Reputation: 21507

if (number % 2 == 0) then
    .....it is even
else
    .....it is odd
end

Upvotes: 29

user2018323
user2018323

Reputation:

you can use math.mod(number, 2) == 0

Upvotes: 2

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