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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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RokuKC
Roku Employee
11 years ago
"EnTerr" wrote:
"Komag" wrote:
EDIT - This will work to check that it's either a String or a roString?

Yes. It will work with all* string types in B/S.


Note that there are components other than String / roString that implement the ifString interface.

This may be academic in your case, but if your intent is to truly identify string objects that have regular string object behavior I would advise doing the lcase(type(x)) = "string" etc. comparison as TheEndless demonstrated.

Similarly for ifInt et al.