type

type returns the type of its argument.

ssType = type(var)

Return Value

ssType is a scalar string and can have one of the following values:

Value

Meaning

“real”

var is a real matrix.

“complex”

var is a complex matrix.

“string”

var is a string matrix.

“object”

var is a COM object pointer.

“obj”

var is a object matrix.

“variant”

var is a variant matrix.

“function”

var is a function.

“undef”

var is not defined.

“error”

var is an error object. See error_create.

“xxx”

xxx is an object type name. For example type(obj_create()) returns the string “obj”.

Parameters

var

var is a name of a matrix or a function.

Example

The following example prints the string "complex":

* a = 1 + 2i
* type(a);
complex

See also

Overview Programming, IsFunctionLoaded, isstring, isreal, iscomplex, ObjGetClass

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