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Komag's avatar
Komag
Roku Guru
11 years ago

Checking Type() is case sensitive - undocumented?

I've noticed that when I check the Type of a variable, it's case sensitive (at least for String/roString). Example: IF Type(id) = "String" OR Type(id) = "roString" ' Could be either one, depending...
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RokuJoel
Binge Watcher
11 years ago
best bet is to use lcase to wrap any string comparisons where case might be an issue or where you have been up for 48 hours programming and might not remember the proper case for something ( is it roUrlEvent or roURLEvent...'yawn' i'll just lcase it... )

if lcase(type(myvariable))="roarray"

if lcase(type(msg))="rourlevent"

- Joel