Unequal if statement?? != or <>

[rgroothuis]

Help ! I'm searching for the unequal if statement!

This
if (a != b) then
of
if (a <> b) then

is not working, what is the correct way of doing this?

Thanks.

[rgroothuis]

I think I finally found my own answer This is not something that is widely used.

The solution is:
if (a ~= b)

Please note the above ~ is NOT the - (minus) character.

[nayr]

If you didnt find it, here is the specific doc you were looking for, there are a lot more worth looking through, lua is unique enough to be maddening sometimes..

http://www.lua.org/pil/3.2.html