Return more than one argument (?)

['LinKin]

Hello,

I've a custom function to return the a player by sending it a part of its nick. But, I was wondering if it is possible to return more than one argument in my function, I mean:

Return the player,

but, if there are more than one (1) players with the same part of the nick, I want to return false & the number of players who have that part of the nick.

If this is not possible, Would it be right if I return different types of elements in the same function?

Example:

if matches == 0 then

return false

elseif matches == 1 then

return thePlayer

elseif matches > 1 then

return matches (*)

end

(*): Would return a number

[arezu]

You can return multiple values in lua and with different types. For example:

function f() 
    local player = localPlayer 
    local playersFound = 3 
    return player, playersFound 
end 
  
local thePlayer, playersFound = f()