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Thu, 05 September 2002 13:18

R.Bauer
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Rick Towler wrote:

> type = size(variable, /type)
>
> see help on the SIZE function for the type codes.
>
> -Rick

In addition of this we have developed a routine is_type

if is_type(var,'STRING') then ....

to determine if a string is a valid number we are using
the routine is_number

http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/download/is_type.tar.gz
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/download/is_number.tar.gz

or as idl5.5 binary

http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/download/is_type.sav
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/dbase/download/is_number.sav

For further routines and licensing please have a look at
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro. html

regards

Reimar

>
>
> "Asti Bhatt" <astib@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message
> news:9e922196.0209041532.42fa4483@posting.google.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Greetings. I need to detect data type of particular variable in my
>> program. i.e. something like - if datatype of x equals integer then
>> ...
>> I couldn't find anything for it. Does anybody know the way to do such
>> thing ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Asti

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