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• string name – name of an inventory item..."

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==Function: integer llGetInventoryType( string name );==
Returns an integer that is the type of the inventory item name 
• string name – name of an inventory item 
If the item does not exist, [[INVENTORY_NONE]] is returned (no errors or messages are generated). 
{| class="wikitable" border=".5" style="text-align:left"
! bgcolor="black" colspan="2"| Flag !! bgcolor="black" | Inventory Type
|-
| INVENTORY_NONE || -1 || Item does not exist.
|-
| INVENTORY_ALL || -1 || Any inventory type.
|-
| INVENTORY_TEXTURE || 0 || texture
|-
| INVENTORY_SOUND || 1 || sound
|-
| INVENTORY_LANDMARK || 3 || landmark
|-
| INVENTORY_CLOTHING || 5 || clothing
|-
| INVENTORY_OBJECT || 6 || object
|-
| INVENTORY_NOTECARD || 7 || notecard
|-
| INVENTORY_SCRIPT || 10 || script
|-
| INVENTORY_BODYPART || 13 || body part
|-
| INVENTORY_ANIMATION || 20 || animation
|-
| INVENTORY_GESTURE || 21 || gesture
|}
 
'''Examples''' 
'''Useful Snippets''' 
{|border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|<source lang="lsl">
string InventoryName(string name, integer type)
{//finds an item in a case insensitive fashion of the given type and returns its true name.
integer a = llGetInventoryType(name);
if(!~a)//a == INVENTORY_NONE
{//it should be noted that INVENTORY_NONE == INVENTORY_ALL == -1; which is why '!~a' works.
string lc_name = llToLower(name);
a = llGetInventoryNumber(type);
while(a)
{//(a = ~-a) is equivalent to --a, but runs faster.
if(llToLower(name = llGetInventoryName(type, a = ~-a)) == lc_name)
{//we found a match ^_^
return name;
}
}
}
else if((a == type) ^ (!~type))//return name, as long as a == type or type == INVENTORY_ALL
{//we already know that a != INVENTORY_NONE, but just in case we use xor instead of or.
return name;
}
return "";//no match ~_~
}

integer InventoryExists(string name, integer type)
{//only included to show how this type of check could be done if the value of 'type' is not constant and could be INVENTORY_ALL.
return (llGetInventoryType(name) == type) ^ (!~type);
}//Since INVENTORY_ALL == INVENTORY_NONE, the extra part on the end is required to invert the result.
</source>
|}
 
See Also 
'''Functions''' 
• [[llGetInventoryName]] – Returns the inventory item's name 
• [[llGetInventoryNumber]] – Returns the number of items of a specific type in inventory 
• [[llGetInventoryCreator]] – Returns the inventory item's creator 
• [[llGetInventoryPermMask]] – Returns the inventory item's permissions 
• [[llGetInventoryKey]] – Returns the inventory item's UUID (if full perm)

LlGetInventoryType - Revision history

Osgridadmin: Created page with "==Function: integer llGetInventoryType( string name );== Returns an integer that is the type of the inventory item name • string name – name of an inventory item..."

Osgridadmin: Created page with "==Function: integer llGetInventoryType( string name );== Returns an integer that is the type of the inventory item name
• string name – name of an inventory item..."