Lua: How to find out if an element is a table instead of a string/number?

Question

As the title says, what function or check can I do to find out if a lua element is a table or not?

local elem = {['1'] = test, ['2'] = testtwo}
if (elem is table?) // <== should return true

Answer 1

In the context of the original question,

local elem = {['1'] = test, ['2'] = testtwo}
if (type(elem) == "table") then
  -- do stuff
else
  -- do other stuff instead
end

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

print(type(elem)) -->table

the type function in Lua returns what datatype it's first parameter is (string)