VALTYPE()
Retrieves the data type of an expression
- Syntax
- VALTYPE( <xExp> ) --> <cReturnType>
- Arguments
- <xExp> is any valid expression.
- Returns
- <cReturnType> a character indicating the type of the passed expression.
- Description
- This function returns one character which represents the date type of the argument.
- Examples
- See Test
- Tests
- function Test()
- ? ValType( Array( 1 ) ) --> "A"
- ? ValType( {|| 1 + 1 } ) --> "B"
- ? ValType( "HARBOUR" ) --> "C"
- ? ValType( Date() ) --> "D"
- ? ValType( .T. ) --> "L"
- ? ValType( 1 ) --> "N"
- ? ValType( TBrowse() ) --> "O"
- ? ValType( NIL ) --> "U"
- return nil
- Status
Ready
- Compliance
- VALTYPE() is fully CA-Clipper compliant.
- Files
- Library is rtl
- See Also