Lua Quick Start Guide

elseif

You might want to make a more complicated decision than a simple if statement allows. For example, you may want to do one thing if the length of a string is less than three, but another thing if the length of a string is greater than three AND less than six! This can be achieved with the elseif statement.

Unlike other languages, there is no space between else and if; it's one keyword: elseif.

An elseif must always follow an if. Syntactically, an elseif statement is followed by a Boolean condition which is then followed by a then/end block. The elseif statement follows the body of the then block of an if statement, but goes before the end statement. The following code demonstrates the syntax of an elseif statement:

print ("Enter your ...