String to boolen?

[Captain Cody]

is there any possible way (Other then tables or if statements) to convert strings to boolen?

 

--

"true" -> true
"false" -> false
"nil" -> nil

 

Edited November 7, 2016 by CodyL

[Simple0x47]

You could make a function like this.

local _S = { "false", "nil", "true" }

function convertThem( key, _type )
  if ( _type == 1 ) then
    _S[ key ] = false
  elseif ( _type == 2 ) then
    _S[ key ] = nil
  elseif ( _type == 3 ) then
    _S[ key ] = true
  end
end

convertThem( 1, 1 )

 

[Walid]

Try this 

function booleanToString(boolean)
   return boolean and "true" or "false"
end 

function stringToBoolean(string)
   return string == "true" and true or false
end