Lua string comparison not working

Question

Well I am learning Lua at the moment and I wanted to write a little script. It's just for practice and understanding how Lua is working.

   local name = io.read()

 if name == Test
  then print("Right")
  else print("Wrong")
end

Normally the output should be "Right" if I enter "Test" but it always prints "Wrong". I tried it many times and wrote the code in other forms but didn't get my solution.

Can anyone help me please?

Answer 1

You're missing a set of quotation marks.

This:

if name == Test

compares the values of two variables, name and Test.

You want this:

if name == "Test"

Lua doesn't require variables to be declared, so this is an easy mistake to make.