{"id":4761,"date":"2014-03-19T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:41:56","slug":"checking-the-type-of-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/2014\/03\/19\/checking-the-type-of-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking the Type of variable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes when you do coding, you may come across a situation where you don’t know what is the data type of the variable and you may be initializing the variable which may give you \u201cType compatibility error\u201d. This issue can be handled in the code. If you have a check on this variable with the help of \u201cType\u201d keyword which will return you the value depending on the type of variable. TYPE can also be used to check the existence of the variable.<\/p>\n

New Stuff:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Populating the description of the field using X3 methodology<\/a><\/p>\n

Type:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> type is used to find the type of variable. It can also be used to test the existence of the variable<\/p>\n

Syntax:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

type(Variable)<\/p>\n

Parameter details:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Variable:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> name of the variable whose type is to be tested.<\/p>\n

type<\/strong> returns a code for the type of variable given in the parameters. This code has the following values<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Code returned<\/strong><\/td>\nData type<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-1<\/td>\nNon- Existence of Variable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nText<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nShort Integer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nLong Integer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFloat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nDouble<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nDecimal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
>10<\/td>\nChar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Kindly refer to the below snippet of code for better understanding<\/p>\n

\"Var-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sometimes when you do coding, you may come across a situation where you don’t know what is the data type of the variable and you may be initializing the variable which may give you \u201cType compatibility error\u201d. This issue can be handled in the code. If you have a check on this variable with the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[503,2299,2368],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-configuration","tag-datatype","tag-type","tag-variable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16663,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/16663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}