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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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RokuMarkn's avatar
RokuMarkn
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11 years ago
I'd tentatively suggest the code should be redesigned if you need to check things like that. Perhaps there's a good use case for keeping different types in the same variable but offhand I can't think of one. I certainly have never had the need to check types at run time, except to distinguish messages returned from Wait().

--Mark