You should convert your string to a number, if you know for sure that it should be a number, and if there is no reason for it to be a string.
Here’s how to do a comparison for a range:
myVariable = tonumber(myVariable) if (100000 >= myVariable and myVariable >= 80000) then display.remove(myImage) end
Notice the and
. Most programming languages don’t expand the form x < y < z
to x < y AND y < z
automatically, so you must use the logical and
explicitly. This is because one side is evaluated before the other side, so in left-to-right order it ends up going from x < y < z
to true < z
which is an error, whereas in the explicit method, it goes from x < y AND y < z
to true AND y < z
to true AND true
, to true
.