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Test if variable is a string [message #33913]

Tue, 04 February 2003 01:56

Carsten Dominik
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Registered: February 1998

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Hello,

I must be blind: How do I test for the type of the object contained
in a variable? I am writing a procedure and want to allow one of the
arguments to be either a string or a number - but the program must of
course find out which it is?

This is my main problem with IDL: I am *never* able to correctly guess
the name of a function for a particular purpose.

So what is the magic word for determining the type of a variable?
Thanks.

- Carsten

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